Description: This late middle aged woman tends to wear a large brown jacket and is in decent physical shape. She keeps her silver hair in a pixie cut. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: In the realm of puns, she cannot help herself. She feels obliged to make them. She tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Carter for the past few years.

Motivation: Regain custody of her daughter; and wants to raise her children well

Ideals: Joker, Optimist. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor, Job, Family. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. His skin is fair and his fingers are delicate and long. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy silver hair. This blue eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. He refers to his adoptive father for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Traubon was born on a far eastern mountains where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Spice Merchant. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 350 gp. Amethyst (120 gp). Hematite (15 gp). Aquamarine (500 gp). 1 Half-Plate.

Description: A 6'4" eastern 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. She wears a colorful flower in her white crest. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: She hates gnolls. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: Born in the east to a Stylist, Quespa learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a son. She has worked as a Stylist like her mother before her.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge; and revenge

Ideals: Justice. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Job, In love. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 9000 cp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: He is lean but muscular and is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. He has done his best to style his white hair to look like a famous performer. His eyes are gray and catlike.

Personality: He has two modes he varies between. On the job he is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job he is a party animal. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his poetry with anyone who is interested.

History: He comes from a rich northern family. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. He has dedicated himself to building a better kind of golem.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother; and doesn't want to be a fisher and was forced into it by his family

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Family, Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 40 pp.

Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he prefers to wear flannel. His hair is black, silky, and of moderate length. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He disdains his fellow northerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: Lapis lazuli (8 gp).

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized yellow coat. Her red hair is cut short. Her gray eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: Mialee hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her painting career. She does not believe in violence as a means to an end. She is a dedicated Engraver but believes her peers are too gung-ho.

History: The child of eastern immigrants she idolized her father. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Half-Elves in the east were limited. She has never given up on her painting dream.

Motivation: She loathes her own lifestyle.

Ideals: Artistic, Pacifist. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 30 gp. Solid gold idol (200 gp).

Description: He stands about 3'0" and is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing white cape and mantle trimmed with soft black waves gently in the breeze. His left leg appears badly burned and disfigured. His brown hair is still thick. His skin is flawless and his brown eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: Wiggan is depressed about a lot of things. He tends to be a nihilist. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: Wiggan was born with his father's beautiful face. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother 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 leaves a trail of broken hearts and full pockets wherever he goes.

Motivation: He uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Rich, Attractive. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 400 sp. 1 Masterwork studded leather.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking northern young adult. He wears suspenders and black workpants. His shirt is tan, and he wears a heavy black leather apron most of the time. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His white hair is long and unkept. His eyes are hazel and beady.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. A fanatic, his devotion to his small selection of gods is unquestionable. He claims to be doing their will and will base all his actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and he is greedy

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Slave, Religious, Rich. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: She is a small woman, but exceptionally fit. She wears dark leathers with embroidery. Her golden hair is still thick. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines gray.

Personality: She is envious of other's things. She hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that she so desires. She dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. Her biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious western family, she was no stranger to responsibility. She went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. She has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: Her religion dominates her actions; and she is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs

Ideals: Athletic, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Greedy. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 110 gp.