Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She wears a black vest with golden trim over her white shirt. Her blue leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and her black boots flare out at the collars. Her dark red hair is unkempt and raggedy. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She is a woman who does what she needs to. She will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. She is a ruthless business woman, a trait she acquired from her mother.

History: Hecat hails from a village terrorized by dire rats. In her youth she was part of a gang. She got caught, but did not rat out her comrades and served her time in prison. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: She is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions; and revenge

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record, Enemies. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 1000 sp. 1 Magnifying glass.

Description: He prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs, and carries greatswords. His copper crest is lengthy and is close to two feet long. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic man, Shedinn's first love is himself. His second love is also himself. He loves being with his children and actually smiles when they are around. He would do anything for them. He dislikes his ex a great deal.

History: Shedinn was born with his father's beautiful face. 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 money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Fighting, Impeccable, Logical. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Family. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A pudgy man standing about 5'9" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized grey coat. He wears his black hair up. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. He receives visions of the future at random moments

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. He always admired druidic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: Seeks redemption.

Ideals: Gifted, Logical. Flaws: Terse, Insane. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 30 gp. Tiger eye turquoise (6 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she is dressed in an above average manner. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. She lacks moral complications. She does what she is told to by employers but not much else. She spends her money on whatever she fancies at the time.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Her father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her father was legitimate. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Guard.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions; and expand her business

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Rich, Religious. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: A pudgy woman standing about 6'1" has a big stupid grin on her face most of the time. She wears a black armored body suit, with a simple white line shooting up and back down. Her white crest is long and unkept. Her red eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She likes to fabricate stories about her past exploits and how crazy she is, but in actuality she is rather bland. She loves being with her children and actually smiles when they are around. She would do anything for them. She dislikes her ex a great deal.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. Being born in the west, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the west for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way south. Unlike her family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, she wanted to work in the city. She has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: Marry her brother to traveling adventurers; and to reunite with her absent mother

Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Family, Poor. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 160 gp. A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (80 gp).

Description: This younger middle-aged woman wears long strands of ruby and short blue dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths, and a wedding ring on her left hand. Her moppish white hair is in a traditional bowl cut. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep blue.

Personality: She does not care much for physical appearances, nor does she care much for other people. She does however care about what she wants and getting it. She also is a firm believer in the womanly ideal.

History: Born in the south to a Guard, Menny learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. At a young age she wooed the heart of her future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg.

Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Rich, In love, Job. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: 160 gp. Tourmaline (140 gp). Red spinel (140 gp). Azurite (11 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: This younger middle-aged man tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look, and a wedding ring on his left hand. His brown fur is unkempt and raggedy. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep green.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing painting.

History: His martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered painting. Some 10 years later his spouse died after the birth of his daughter. Heartbroken, Harvest never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his daughter whom he trained as his father had trained him before.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Gifted, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: In love, Poor. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 300 sp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: She wears a pastel cloak and cross-gartered brown stockings. She wears her orange fur down. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. She has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: Her druidic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. After coming to the age of reason, Cloak took it upon herself to study the druidic arts in their entirety; because of this, she was labeled a dark omen and banished from her homeland. She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature greataxe.

Motivation: She wants to meet her childhood hero.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Insane, Addict. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: He is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright brown and blue, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. He has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. His yellow fur is drawn into a tight pony tail with a clover scrunchie. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady copper eyes.

Personality: He fancies himself a trickster and likes to rely on his wits to carry the day. He cares for his older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. He passes on several rewards to people in need. He makes a point to leave places better than he found them.

History: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. A freak accident while working with his Tailor mother left him crippled. He used his abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and he is greedy

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 500 sp.