Description: This younger middle-aged woman does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it, and a wedding ring on her right hand. She wears a Stetson hat to hide her balding. Her fierce gray eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She has a good heart but also a terrible temper. She will forgive often but not before yelling and berating someone for whatever they have done wrong. The occasional robbery is her preferred attention getting crime, but she mainly uses her means for meeting her own perverse desires.

History: When she was but 5 years old her parents immigrated from the west. She has had some formal painting training, and achieved minor success. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and she is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: In love, Criminal record, Immigrant. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He is a husky man, who wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. His white hair is greasy and uncared for. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He is very protective of his business, his home, and his spouse. He is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Quarion grew up listening to his father's many stories. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He has never given up on his painting dream.

Motivation: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother

Ideals: Disciplined, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 90 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: He is of a modest build and height, but he carries himself more imposing than he is. He wears a robe, a symbol of the four houses of cards around his neck, and a lance on his belt. He keeps his dark red hair in a pixie cut. He has white eyes and a green hat with a brown feather.

Personality: He is quite rude, and likes to deride his opponents skill and shout insults at them. He is an amazing painter.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family He inherited a moderately successful company from his mother. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and he feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 200 sp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: This woman wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. She is muscular with a powerful set of arms. She has dyed her greying white hair a little too much giving a sharp white color. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. She refers to her adoptive father for almost all things she is unsure about, which are numerous. She is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: Verin hails from a village terrorized by gnolls. At a young age her father died while driving off some gnolls. Her mother being the stubborn sort decided to stay and helped train her in nunchaku use. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by gnolls. Verin was horrified and prayed that her mother was alright. However, she heard that her mother had died fighting off the gnolls.

Motivation: To protect her home; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Guardian, Family, Enemies, Job. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 3000 cp. 2 Tanglefoot bags.

Description: He prefers to wear blue clothing when he does not wear armor. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his shortbow, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a cross on it. He has a very tight haircut. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He uses divination through singing.

History: Erky was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his father was employed at, doing general labor. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. He used his abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: Marry his sister to traveling adventurers; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Bonds: Poor, Religious, Family. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 9000 cp.

Description: He is an average looking eastern male in his early mid-life. He wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. His dark red hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his red eyes.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: To end his boredom; and to find somewhere to settle down

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Shy, Mundane, Insane. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. Her gold crest is kept up in a ponytail inside a feathered hat. Her eyes are gold.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes giants are coming to abduct people. She would rather hide behind her crafts than deal with other people.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. In her 17th year, her parents were killed by a giants raid, leaving Savaran alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her sons to still be retired.

Motivation: She seems to be bored by most things; and an old rival family wants her found

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Shy, Mundane. Bonds: Enemies, Family. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: He wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. With bright golden hair and a scraggly beard. His gray eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He runs his personal life as if detached from it. He organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits he will get from it. He constantly seizes attention wherever he goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. He likes to think of himself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. He's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for him; and he feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Attractive, Religious. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 350 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She wears professional attire. She carries with her a set of scythes, each one with a ruby on the hilt. She only wears one on her belt and the other on her back. Her hair is auburn and curly. Her amber eyes peer out from beneath her deerstalker brown hat.

Personality: The woman has a huge range of feeling. She will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how she will be a better person from this day on. She lacks restraint and is impulsive. She jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. She graduated from the Naval Academy and went to see the world at the rank of Ensign. She advanced relatively quickly due to her good work ethic, understanding of the chain of command, and natural leadership ability. Recently a tribe of gnolls attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Torgga fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Emotional, Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 230 gp. 1 Backpack.