Description: She wears baggy tan pantaloons and a pastel scarf. Her silver hair is still thick. Her gray eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She is irascible and easily irritated. She also has developed a complete distrust of the Barrister profession.

History: A powerful necromancer made her what she is. Like her father and her sister before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Butcher. Being a Butcher kept her interest for a while, but then she became depressed and bored. So she turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and retire the richest woman in the north

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Mentor, Criminal record. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 100 pp.

Description: She stands about 2'11" and wears a white costume with the symbols of the four houses of cards on her torso. Her right hand appears badly burned and disfigured. Her black hair is knotted and matted. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. She is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes her no end of embarrassment.

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 is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and someone believes her a fraud

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Insane, Shy, Forgetful. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 1000 cp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: He wears a blue coat over a tan low-cut shirt, and a broad hat upon his head. He has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. His white hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He hates Gnomes with a passion. As such he is filled with self loathing. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: Trained by his father for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. A gifted student he started as a Hunter, but he got bored and became a Barkeep. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Insane, Racist. Bonds: Military, Job. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 220 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This northern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He wears yellow painted combat armor at almost all times. His blonde hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His blue eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. He loves teas. He is very sensitive about his face. To blow off anger he lifts weights and to control his otherwise explosive temper he works out a lot.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He left for the north, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: He is wearing a tight pastel one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 6'7" when asserting himself. He wears his red fur down. His copper eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He fancies himself a trickster and likes to rely on his wits to carry the day. He cares for his older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. He is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. His first spouse was a Sailor, they had one son, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. He now spends his time doing works of charity.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Gifted, Philantrophist, Fighting. Bonds: Family, Poor. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: An imposing woman with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic left hand, she wears dark leathers with embroidery. She has dyed her greying blonde hair a little too much giving a sharp blonde color. Her amber eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic woman, Mary's first love is herself. Her second love is also herself. She is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: A child with a great deal of writing talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. She went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. She used her abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: She is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions.

Ideals: Impeccable, Artistic. Bonds: Criminal record, Religious. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 2000 cp. Deep green spinel (110 gp). 1 Masterwork Musical instrument.

Description: A stocky lighter skinned man, he is dressed in earthy colors with a white and black handkerchief worn on his right side. He wears a colorful flower in his black hair. His blue unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: His father raised him in a mountain cabin. He always admired martial-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He bought a longbow and has really upped his game hunting, due to his understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Disease, Antagonistic, Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 4000 cp. 1 Masterwork Heavy wooden shield.

Description: She is wearing a long, violet, dusty cloak. She is physically well-built. Her chestnut hair is lengthy. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: Agnes wants to be seen as a stoic, levelheaded, noble Sorcerer, so she tries to act the part. She does a good job, for the most part... She is obsessed with her god.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. She used her abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: She is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Disciplined, Philantrophist. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Mentor, Job. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 1 Banded mail.

Description: He is an average looking northern male in his early mid-life. He is typically in his Laborer uniform. He wears a colorful flower in his red crest. He has red eyes and a green hat with a grey feather.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating he would invite many more into his home than his spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. He lacks restraint and is impulsive. He jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

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. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He's also a talented Engraver, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: Expand his business; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Job, Attractive. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 100 sp.