Description: This woman is very fat, and prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. She carries her fan with her everywhere and carries herself as the perfect lady. She wears a Stetson hat to hide her balding. She has several tiny jet earrings on each ear.

Personality: She considers herself the protector of her home. She feels this is her duty and calling. Her philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: She comes from a rich southern family. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. Since then, she has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: To clean up the streets.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Guardian, Nature. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: She likes to wear green tank tops with blue skirt. She is portly but not overly obese. Her wide-brimmed hat is riddled with cuts and holes. She has a dull look in her gold eyes.

Personality: She is quiet and unassuming. She ignores others and carries on with her job unassumingly. She uses her nature as a weapon; she likes to lead opponents to think her in distress.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. Kava liked to wander the woods near her home when she was young, something she still likes to do at least once a week. She never liked modest clothing or shoes, so she would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and she developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. She guards a vault combo very seriously as well as the key needed to open it.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and expand her business

Flaws: Ugly, Secretive. Bonds: Job, Mentor, Nature. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 40 gp. Rose (50 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. She has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. She has dyed her greying blonde hair a little too much giving a sharp blonde color. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. She is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes her no end of embarrassment.

History: She was born into a rich family. She inherited a moderately successful company from her father. Under her leadership it has flourished, and using capital from her venture she effectively owns an entire region. One night she noticed a nearby shooting star which she hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. She has done her darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: Her religion dominates her actions; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Persistence. Flaws: Forgetful. Bonds: Rich, Religious. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 2100 sp. Golden yellow topaz (600 gp). Bloodstone (20 gp). Chrysoberyl (150 gp).

Description: She is well dressed, but even with her fine clothing she looks run-down. Her chestnut hair is smooth and relatively long. Her amber eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She goes out her way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one she won't accept into her heart. Animals are drawn to her, and she is able to talk to them.

History: She was born in a small mountains village. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Expand her business; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted. Bonds: Nature, Rich, Job. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 1 Superior lock.

Description: He stands about 5'9" and wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. His right hand appears badly burned and disfigured. His brown hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His gray eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Dûgza was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 140 gp. Blue quartz (12 gp).

Description: He prefers to wear green pants and tee shirts, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 6'2" when asserting himself. His white crest is heavily combed to the right. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. Adrex is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his brothers into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: He was raised in a forest tribe. Being born in the north, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the north for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way west. He was granted necromantic powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent mother.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, Nature. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: German accent

Possessions: A silver and pearl hairclip (40 gp). Solid gold idol (500 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (500 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she is typically in her Butcher uniform. Her dark red hair, when down, is lengthy. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep white.

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. She is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Butcher arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. A gifted student she started as a Glassblower, but she got bored and became a Butcher. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Expand her business.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic, Depressed. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 30 gp. Freshwater pearl (12 gp).

Description: This light-skinned female is renowned for her bright blue dresses and hats. She is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. Her silver hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. Her gray unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Her tongue was cut out and she uses sign language. She is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. She haggles over everything, upselling her goods and buying cheap. She is persistent in everything.

History: A child with a great deal of music talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. Cursed with a spirit at a very young age, Carlin has worked very hard to control her curse. She became a Shepherd soon after.

Motivation: She feels threatened by others; and to be a laborer again

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Artistic. Flaws: Disease, Fearful. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 60 pp. Chrysoberyl (120 gp). 1 Masterwork Musical instrument.

Description: A woman with a calm yet intense air about her, she is wearing a tight tan one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. Her hair is blonde and curly. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady violet eyes.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. She pushes her goals aggressively. She is also a coward if confronted.

History: She was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for her. It may also be what makes her so good at details. A freak accident while working with her Brewer mother left her crippled. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To protect her home; and she is wracked by social anxiety

Flaws: Ugly, Fearful, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Guardian. Occupation: Server

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: Just what you see.