Description: She is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing black cape and mantle trimmed with soft brown waves gently in the breeze. She has wavy brown hair. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

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. To her fellows she is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: She comes from a rich eastern family. She moved out west to avoid the crime she committed. 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: A rival would like her out of the picture; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and she desires to right it

Ideals: Opinionated. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Enemies, Criminal record. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 500 sp.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. She tends to wear a large grey jacket. Her red hair is singed and shortened. This brown eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: The woman has a huge range of feeling. She will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how she will be a better person from this day on. When she's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, she's doing music.

History: Jacoba was raised in a hard working conservative environment. She was an apprentice working in her father's forge. When she grew older, she became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. She began work as a mercenary for hire. She would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent father; and doesn't want to be a blacksmith and was forced into it by her family

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Emotional. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 120 gp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep tan leather and dull brown iron scale mail. Her black hair is cut short. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks her mind. When she's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, she's doing poetry.

History: Traulam was born in the west. At a young age she loved to build and create. Her mother was a mechanic, and taught her how to fix just about anything. She has became unsatisfied with her lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: She wants to meet her childhood hero; and she's looking for her big break

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic, Persistence. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 100 sp.

Description: This late middle aged man wears skinny pants and wears a black and green robe with the hood down and is in decent physical shape. He sports a long black beard, and similarly colored long hair. His eyes are violet.

Personality: He is mildly Half-Orc supremacist, though he does not identify as such. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: The child of northern immigrants he idolized his father. A few years later when the east was not economically sound they moved to his current location. When he grew older, he became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. He began work as a mercenary for hire. He would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: Meet up once more with his childhood friend; and he feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world

Ideals: Optimist, Impeccable. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: This younger middle-aged woman dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over her head, and a wedding ring on her right hand. Her auburn hair is long and unkept. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines violet.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food she seems plenty friendly. She does not believe in violence as a means to an end. She is a dedicated Mason but believes her peers are too gung-ho.

History: She was born several months after her mother was called into army service. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She has since married many spouses, only to have them die. She claims to not be responsible.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Pacifist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: In love, Military. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 40 gp.

Description: She is lean but muscular and wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. With bright chestnut hair. She is baby faced.

Personality: She hates drow. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: She was born in the south. She inherited a moderately successful company from her father. Under her leadership it has flourished, and using capital from her venture she effectively owns an entire region. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: She wants revenge against drow; and she has money and likes to spend it

Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Religious, Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: Eye agate (10 gp).

Description: He wears skinny pants and wears a black and brown robe with the hood down. His Stetson hat is riddled with cuts and holes. His eyes are likewise blue. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He passes on several rewards to people in need. He makes a point to leave places better than he found them.

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. His childhood dream was to be a Seamstress, but he was a colossal failure. He was granted psionic powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Dilettante responsibilities is difficult; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 80 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp).

Description: An older woman who tends to wear a grey poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt, she is not a threatening figure. Her head has been shaved. Her green eyes peer out from beneath her feathered grey hat.

Personality: In the realm of puns, she cannot help herself. She feels obliged to make them. 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: Born in the west her family was never financially stable. Her mother took her hunting and taught her how to get in the mind of other creatures. She bought a sai and has really upped her game hunting, due to her understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: She desires power and/or immortality.

Ideals: Joker, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Nature, Poor. Occupation: Server

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. Her moppish black hair is in a traditional bowl cut. Her hazel eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. She is a ruthless business woman, a trait she acquired from her mother.

History: She was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family Her mother was very strict, and drilled into her lessons on being the perfect lady. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: A rival would like her out of the picture.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Impeccable. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 50 gp.