Description: She stands about 5'7" and is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by her earthly robes.. Her left hand appears badly burned and disfigured. She wears a colorful flower in her gray fur. She has gleaming, smiling amber eyes.

Personality: She considers herself the perfect lady. She makes a point to always show proper etiquette and frequently critiques the etiquette of others. 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: Gale hails from a village terrorized by giants. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to giants demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Impeccable, Logical. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 260 gp.

Description: This fat western woman has a bulbous nose and wears long strands of ruby and short violet dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. Her skin is also unnaturally pale. Her red hair is well kept. Her hazel eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. She is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: She was born in the west, but her parents moved at a very young age to the south. Her mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Military, Immigrant. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This light-skinned female wears silk and lounges about seductively. She is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. Her hair is brown and very short. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She is quiet and unassuming. She ignores others and carries on with her job unassumingly. She cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist she will grow angry at them.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. Like her mother and her sister before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Painter. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Painter and was forced into it by her family; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Family. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 500 gp. Sardonyx (20 gp). Deep green spinel (70 gp). Rhodochrosite (4 gp). Sardonyx (20 gp).

Description: She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her scarlet crest is singed and shortened. Her gold eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with her opinion, she thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, she can get violently argumentative. She is a bit of a macho woman and will challenge people to random contests of strength and skill, and invite them to random hunting and fishing trip.

History: The child of a Sculptor, who enjoyed hunting, Zykroff was taken on many hunting expeditions. Her father took her hunting and taught her how to get in the mind of other creatures. Recently a tribe of goblins attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Zykroff fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the north.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Opinionated, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 160 gp.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, she wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. Her gray eyes peer out from beneath her wide-brimmed tan hat.

Personality: She is unhospitable to her core. Her small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. She is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. She made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. She is searching for what she claims is her rightful reward.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Human artifacts is her passion; and she has passion for adventuring and risk

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 90 gp. A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (30 gp).

Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she wears black painted combat armor at almost all times. Her scarlet crest is lengthy. Her eyes are red and catlike.

Personality: She snorts whenever she laughs or is feeling confident. She refers to her adoptive mother for almost all things she is unsure about, which are numerous. She is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: Born in the north her family was never financially stable. She helped her mother out around the business and became quite the natural. She tends to her Locksmith job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and marry her sister to traveling adventurers

Bonds: Family, Poor, Job, Military. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 300 sp.

Description: This younger middle-aged woman wears an entirely white suit with grey socks and a vest with buckled shoes, and a wedding ring on her left hand. Her golden hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: Calm and collected, she is a well trained Unemployed. 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: Trained by her father for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. Georgina was born on a far northern mountains where she grew up under the tutelage of her father, an expert Unemployed. She has worked as a Unemployed like her father before her.

Motivation: She wants to get laid; and sabotage a competitor

Bonds: In love, Job, Military, Immigrant, Has a crush. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 70 gp. 2 Tanglefoot bags.

Description: The man speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. He seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if he got out from a pool a few moments ago. He wears a robe, a symbol of luck around his neck, and a bastard sword on his belt. His golden hair is still thick. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, he has a hard time making friends. He plays an instrument quite well.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered dancing. 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 seeks redemption

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 50 gp. Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (80 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: Her left side is far more bruised and cut up than her other. She prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for her hunting needs. She has shaved her head bald. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is intelligent and cunning, but she will too often allow her rage to get the better of her. She will lose her cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. She is fiercely devoted to her mother, and views her mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-brother.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. While she appears to be a normal Halfling, she's... not quite right. Perhaps she's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that she plain doesn't fit in. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: To unite with her brother; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 130 gp.