Description: This woman is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of her veins is visible when she is not flexing. Her shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for her due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. Her brown hair is singed and shortened. She has gray eyes and a grey hat with a black feather.

Personality: She is curt in most of her responses. She prefers to keep her word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. Despite her manner, she is extremely passionate and proud of her job, and she prides herself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Job, Slave. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with blue lining and desert motifs. He carries a battered hand crossbow and tarnished warhammer as well. He keeps his golden hair in a flapper bob. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are hazel.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. He is stubborn though. He always likes to keep a trick up his sleeve. He likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if he feels he even has a chance of losing.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. His father was very strict, and drilled into him lessons on being the perfect gentleman. After a long history of fighting, Boddynock and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable; and he is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions

Ideals: Fighting, Impeccable. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Criminal record, Religious. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 3000 cp.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She is wearing a tight green one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. She has done her best to style her dark red hair to look like a famous performer. She has white eyes.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: Ishte was born into a poor family. Growing up, she dreamt of becoming a Sorcerer, to bring honor to her family’s name. When she came of age, she applied for a position with her town's local guard, looking to work her way up via merit and eventually become a Sorcerer in service of a powerful lord somewhere. When Ishte reached her early adolescence her Tiefling mother passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, she decided to travel. Her rounds led her into the Army with a few individuals who would become her life-long companions. Lacking all sense, she decided to go on an adventure. She picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and to reunite with her old friends

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Poor, Religious, Adventurer, Military. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 380 gp. Onyx (40 gp). Moonstone (40 gp).

Description: An older woman who wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with broad hat, she is not a threatening figure. She sports a flattop fur cut. Her eyes are likewise green. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: She hates dire rats. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She plays an instrument quite well.

History: The child of eastern immigrants she idolized her mother. She dropped out of school before completing her studies. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by dire rats. River was horrified and prayed that her father was alright. However, she heard that her father had died fighting off the dire rats.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Artistic, Logical. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Immigrant. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 4000 cp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: 5'7" and lanky with angular features, she is an attractive figure. She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her long purple hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She is irascible and easily irritated. She is a ruthless business woman, a trait she acquired from her mother.

History: She got into the Knight business at a young age. Through the years after Bryseis was born, her mother became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the south. Bryseis's mother didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. Recently the stress of being a Knight has made it difficult for her to sleep.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insomniac, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: 50 pp. 1 Simple lock.

Description: This woman is very fat, and wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her morningstar with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. She has wavy blonde hair. Her blue eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: Her voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl she speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of her tone. Her temper goes off on the smallest of things. She tends to lash out at those around her.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. 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: She is content; and to find somewhere to settle down

Flaws: Ugly, Addict, Cynical, Antagonistic, Mundane. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 3000 cp.

Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she wears an entirely yellow suit with tan socks and a vest with buckled shoes. Her chestnut hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. She has gleaming, smiling violet eyes.

Personality: She is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. She invites people to come help in her community garden.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. A freak accident while working with her Seamstress father left her crippled. She guards a vault combo very seriously as well as the key needed to open it.

Motivation: She has decided she is irredeemable; and a rival would like her out of the picture

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Shy, Disease, Secretive. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 500 sp.

Description: He is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his sword, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a dagger on it. His silver hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. His eyes are likewise blue.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the west. He has all his life been fascinated with poetry.

History: He was raised in a plains tribe. A gifted student he started as a Banker, but he got bored and became a Cartwright. He's also a talented Banker, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Ideals: Pacifist, Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Job, In love. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 60 gp. Brown-green garnet (40 gp). Malachite (8 gp). 1 Half-Plate.

Description: A middle-aged woman, she wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath her coat, and is pretty ugly. With bright golden hair. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She is extraordinarily eccentric. A true patriot, Valida would do anything for her country. She is fiercely protective of her fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and retire the richest woman in the north

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Disease. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 400 gp.