Description: With white face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she wears dark leathers with embroidery. She wears her chestnut hair up. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She is a sleazy, sleazy gal. She has no qualms about using her powers of suggestion to get people to do what she wants. She is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Mella was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Mella grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Mella. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to drow demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: She is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions; and to be a shepherd again

Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Mentor, Enemies, Job. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 100 gp. 2 Acid flasks. 2 Thunderstones.

Description: This late middle aged man dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head and is in decent physical shape. His auburn hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His amber unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He has schizophrenia that causes him to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. Despite his manner, he is extremely passionate and proud of his job, and he prides himself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: The child of a Miller, who enjoyed hunting, Dondon was taken on many hunting expeditions. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Halflings in the east were limited. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 9 years.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and wants to open a new tavern

Flaws: Disease, Insane. Bonds: Job, Nature, Immigrant. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He is a husky man, who is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright brown and tan, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. He has dyed his greying gray fur a little too much giving a sharp gray color. His eyes are amber and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is a hateful person. He taunts others and blames them for his problems. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Fletcher they were divorced and he won custody of their daughter. He worked as a Tailor, and he later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Tailor responsibilities is difficult.

Flaws: Antagonistic, Secretive. Bonds: Rich, Job, Family. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 200 sp.

Description: This woman wears a tan vest and prefers grey and green shirts. Her boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. She is muscular with a powerful set of arms. She has slicked back chestnut hair. Her gray eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She tends to agree with only herself unless someone else's opinion sounds like she can profit from it. She tries to control her temper but she can't always stop herself from what she feels what must be done. She has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. Her father was a mechanic, and taught her how to fix just about anything. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 160 gp. Freshwater pearl (15 gp).

Description: A stocky lighter skinned man, he wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his morningstar with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. His hair, while still mostly black, has prominent grey streaks. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his amber eyes.

Personality: The man has a huge range of feeling. He will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how he will be a better person from this day on. He enjoys reading and quiet.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Cursed with vampirism at a very young age, Conrad has worked very hard to control his curse. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north; and he loathes his own lifestyle

Ideals: Logical, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Emotional, Disease. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 130 gp.

Description: She is in excellent shape and is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by her earthly robes.. She wears her chestnut hair down. Her brown eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: She hates dire rats. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: Veloptima was born with her mother's beautiful face. She dropped out of school before completing her studies. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and she desires to right it; and someone believes her a fraud

Ideals: Athletic, Joker, Logical. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: Her right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise she appears quite healthy. She wears a tattered pair of loose brown pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. Her orange fur is still thick. Her eyes are green and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. She loves teas. She is very sensitive about her face. To blow off anger she lifts weights and to control her otherwise explosive temper she works out a lot.

History: She was born at the edge of vast desert. She was an apprentice working in her father's forge. She has worked as a Unemployed like her father before her.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Poor, Nature, Job. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 1000 cp. Eye agate (9 gp). 1 Average lock.

Description: A woman with a calm yet intense air about her, she wears suspenders and blue workpants. Her shirt is brown, and she wears a heavy blue leather apron most of the time. Her brown hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. She is baby faced.

Personality: She dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the east. She constantly seizes attention wherever she goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. She likes to think of herself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: Tana was born with her mother's beautiful face. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She left for the east, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: She wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and nothing but the best is good enough for her

Ideals: Pacifist, Impeccable. Flaws: Greedy. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with small hat. He has a long black beard with little hanging trinkets. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage daughter.

History: A child with a great deal of dancing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. His mother disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his mother, he was betrayed dozens of times. He has gone from town to town working and never settling down anywhere, but has fallen for a local Dyer. He hasn't told them the truth, but wants to settle down with them.

Motivation: He is content; and he's attracted to the pc

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Shy, Mundane. Bonds: Family, Has a crush. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 100 gp. Alexandrite (500 gp). Eye agate (10 gp).