Description: She is lean but muscular and wears suspenders and red workpants. Her shirt is brown, and she wears a heavy red leather apron most of the time. She has no hair. Her amber eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. 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: Portia lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Over the years she perfected her riding and shooting skills. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Family, Nature. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 1600 sp.

Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She wears a worn and beaten armor. She is bald on top and has large silver tufts of hair around her ears. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady amber eyes.

Personality: She is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. She will do just about anything if she becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this she is easily convinced.

History: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: She's attracted to the PC; and she has a crush on the local locksmith

Ideals: Joker, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Has a crush. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 90 gp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. His white crest is slicked back into a classic pompadour. He has a dull look in his red eyes.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He is an amazing painter.

History: Gargax was born in the west. At a young age he loved to build and create. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He tends to his Knight job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and expand his business

Ideals: Gifted, Persistence. Bonds: Job, Mentor. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 2000 cp. Blue quartz (16 gp). Sardonyx (30 gp). Smoky quartz (30 gp). 1 Antitoxin.

Description: This late middle aged woman is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time and is in decent physical shape. She keeps her blonde hair in a pixie cut. Her eyes are blue and beady.

Personality: She misses her glory days as an athlete. She does not mind her job, but it is boring in comparison. She moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep her interest for a month it is impressive.

History: She got into the Gardener business at a young age. Her mother disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her mother, she was betrayed dozens of times. She became a Gardener soon after.

Motivation: Regain custody of her daughter.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 400 sp.

Description: 5'9" and muscular, this western woman wears a black armored body suit, with a simple white line shooting up and back down. Her long red hair reaches down to her waist. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are gray.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes orcs are coming to abduct people. She has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: She got into the Herbalist business at a young age. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: She wants revenge against orcs; and someone believes her a fraud

Ideals: Athletic, Justice. Bonds: Enemies, Job. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 60 gp.

Description: A moderately attractive man, he is dressed in an above average manner. He keeps his long bronze crest kept up in a rat tail. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: Born to a Ruler, his father struggled to pay the bills. In his 12th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his father impaled in their home, and his mother beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He guards a vault combo very seriously as well as the key needed to open it.

Motivation: He is wracked by social anxiety.

Flaws: Disease, Secretive, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Poor. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 400 gp. Deep blue spinel (300 gp). Sardonyx (50 gp). Chrysoberyl (120 gp).

Description: A moderately attractive man, he prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. He carries his fan with him everywhere and carries himself as the perfect gentleman. His auburn hair, when down, is lengthy. His green eyes peer out from beneath his wide-brimmed grey hat.

Personality: Quiet and reserved he prefers to listen than to talk. He will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. He cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He now spends his time doing works of charity.

Motivation: He uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Mentor. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 20 pp.

Description: He is a pot bellied northern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He has the majority of his body covered in plate. His hair is black and curly. His skin is flawless and his gray eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: He is happy with his job as a Crown-heir. He turns his eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. He constantly seizes attention wherever he goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. He likes to think of himself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: He got into the Crown-heir business at a young age. His father was very strict, and drilled into him lessons on being the perfect gentleman. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Crown-heir.

Motivation: He feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Impeccable. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 250 gp.

Description: With grey face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he wears a blue top hat and blue clothes. His black hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a top hat. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep hazel.

Personality: He has two modes he varies between. On the job he is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job he is a party animal. 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: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. His martial abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He left for the east, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Locksmith responsibilities is difficult; and he's in love

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Has a crush. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 400 sp. Moonstone (20 gp).