Description: This tall, slender woman wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with green lining and desert motifs. She sports a flattop crest cut. Her eyes are likewise red.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic woman, Hethress's first love is herself. Her second love is also herself. She takes great joy in being the best Butcher in town.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Butcher arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. She has had some formal painting training, and achieved minor success. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Butcher and was forced into it by her family; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Impeccable, Artistic. Bonds: Job, Rich, Family. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 2400 sp.

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she wears long strands of sapphire and short red dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. Sporting a black mohawk this woman's hair draws a lot of attention. Her eyes are brown and catlike.

Personality: A grumpy gal she will invite people to lunch so she can critique them. Yet she still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. She does not believe in violence as a means to an end. She is a dedicated Soapmaker but believes her peers are too gung-ho.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her father gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her father, who blamed her for driving them apart. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and she seems to be bored by most things

Ideals: Philantrophist, Pacifist. Flaws: Antagonistic, Mundane. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 380 gp. Golden pearl (40 gp). Jet (40 gp). 1 Half-Plate.

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy white fur. She wears a fine chain shirt which she covers with pastel colored cloaks and clothing. She has a hunchback. She has no fur. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She is a melancholic, but persistent worker. She resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. She will do just about anything if she becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this she is easily convinced.

History: Drifting was born in the north. At a young age she loved to build and create. A few years later when the south was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She has recently attracted an admirer that believes she's playing hard to get.

Motivation: She would like to get married and retire; and wants her loneliness to end

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Has a crush, Immigrant. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: She is a pot bellied southern woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She wears a brown tunic with yellow highlights, and long grey pants that bunch up around her shoes. Her golden hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. Her gray eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She has always had a great fascination with Gnomish culture. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: Her father raised her in a mountain cabin. Before the accident, she was one of the most outspoken anti-Gnomish activists. She was mortally wounded, saved by a kind and fast-acting Gnomish doctor. She got away from her former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: She seems to be bored by most things; and to find somewhere to settle down

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Racist, Addict, Mundane. Bonds: Religious, Nature. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 3000 cp.

Description: This late middle aged man is wearing a tight white one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape and is in decent physical shape. His feathered hat is riddled with cuts and holes. His eyes are brown and catlike.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation he is generally quite perceptive. He notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. He refers to his adoptive mother 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: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to his current location. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Herbalist they were divorced and he won custody of their daughter. He worked as a Spice Merchant, and he later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: He is greedy; and he has money and likes to spend it

Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac. Bonds: Family, Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: Her left side is far more bruised and cut up than her other. She wears a blue coat over a black low-cut shirt, and a wide-brimmed hat upon her head. Her blonde hair is greasy and uncared for. Her eyes are hazel and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation she is generally quite perceptive. She notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. She is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories she has discovered

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. She worked as a nervous Adventurer and found it very stressful. She has achieved small success as a Adventurer.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 160 gp. Banded agate (16 gp).

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy chestnut stubble. He wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty blue coat over it. He has a hunchback. His chestnut hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk he knows how to make people feel guilty. He has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. He was a friend to animals and a trickster. In his defense of animals however he would do severe harm to people. After a long history of fighting, Hadarai and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He feels kind of lost in life.

Flaws: Ugly, Depressed, Antagonistic. Bonds: Military, Nature. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 3000 cp.

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy red fur. She wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally she sports a pastel coat. She has a hunchback. Her fur is red and very short. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk she knows how to make people feel guilty. 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: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. Brilliant and gifted she never wanted to apply herself. She became a Spy soon after.

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

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Depressed. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This man prefers to wear white pants and tee shirts, and sports empty pouches on his belt. He keeps his brown hair in a flapper bob. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, he has a hard time making friends. 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: Born to a pair of adventurers, Hupe grew up listening to his mother's many stories. While he appears to be a normal Halfling, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: He wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and to reunite with his old friends

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic, Insane, Greedy. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 310 gp. 1 Half-Plate.