Description: Standing 3'2", this woman dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over her head. Her moppish auburn hair is in a traditional bowl cut. She has a dull look in her green eyes.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. She also has developed a complete distrust of the Soapmaker profession.

History: Born in the north her family was never financially stable. From there she went from mercenary job to mercenary job. She now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: Meet up once more with her childhood friend; and to pay off her debts

Ideals: Persistence. Bonds: Job, Poor, Adventurer, Debt. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 240 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright black and grey, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. Her chestnut hair is matted, messy, and big. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: Nija 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... Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. 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 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: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and she is greedy

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Rich, Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 80 gp. Malachite (15 gp).

Description: She is lean but muscular and wears an entirely red suit with brown socks and a vest with buckled shoes. She has chestnut hair. Her fierce brown eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She exudes charisma. She is a tour de force of persuasion. She does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: Shaena hails from a village terrorized by brigands. She helped her father out around the business and became quite the natural. She became a Stylist soon after.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the north; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Job. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his blue eyes.

Personality: He likes to brag about his accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. His job bores him to no end. He has decided to make it more interesting.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious western family, he was no stranger to responsibility. He was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. He has dedicated himself to building a better trade route.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero.

Ideals: Passionate. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Criminal record, Religious. Occupation: Mason

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 60 gp.

Description: This younger middle-aged man tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look, and a wedding ring on his right hand. He has dyed his greying bronze crest a little too much giving a sharp bronze color. His red eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He is a very philanthropic person; he spends his free time working at various soup kitchens. He is very protective of his business, his home, and his spouse. He is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: Kaladan was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He worked as a nervous Marshal and found it very stressful. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Marshal for the past few years.

Motivation: Expand his business.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Bonds: In love, Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 90 gp.

Description: A thin man, he clearly needs to put on some weight, but he still has a lot of muscle. He is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. He wears his brown fur up. His yellow eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He trusts no one. He is not readily capable for forgiveness and his ire never leaves him. He is fiercely devoted to his mother, and views his mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-sister.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. Being born in the east, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the east for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way north. After a long history of fighting, Tricking and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Rich. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: Amber (100 gp).

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). He wears a colorful flower in his red hair. His brown eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. He is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with his big mouthed big gutted partner. His partner is his best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. Thervan is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his sisters into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: Thervan lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Glassblower. He has dedicated himself to building a better trade route.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and he has money and likes to spend it

Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Family, Job, Rich. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 5000 cp. Red spinel (140 gp). Chrysoberyl (140 gp). Jade (140 gp).

Description: She dresses in yellow turtlenecks beneath a red coat with grey slacks. She sports a flattop hair cut. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. She is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with her big mouthed big gutted partner. Her partner is her best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. She is used to getting what she wants. In part because she is a meticulous planner.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. She was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. She is searching for what she claims is her rightful reward.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out; and she is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs

Ideals: Professionalism. Bonds: Adventurer, Slave, Religious. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She tends to wear a large violet jacket, and carries shields. She has wavy silver hair. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her blue eyes.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Maynild embodies much of what other species detest in the Half-Elves. She is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

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. Through the years after Maynild was born, her father became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the south. Maynild's father didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and she's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic, Selfish. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Mayor

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

Possessions: 110 gp. 1 Smokesticks.