Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she wears a black feathered hat and black clothes. She wears a colorful flower in her red crest. Her fierce red eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help her friends. She considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. She is stubborn though. She always likes to keep a trick up her sleeve. She likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if she feels she even has a chance of losing.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. Her family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The mother sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. She saw this and took pride in her mother's willingness to do anything to win. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to brigands demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for her; and she feels the way she acts is they only way to get by in the world

Ideals: Optimist, Impeccable. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Enemies. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 600 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: With white face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright blue and violet, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. She has done her best to style her red hair to look like a famous performer. Her green unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She considers herself the protector of her home. She feels this is her duty and calling. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage son.

History: Her mother raised her in a mountain cabin. Her father took her hunting and taught her how to get in the mind of other creatures. By chance she met her brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: She uses money and sex appeal to get what she needs; and her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Rich, Guardian, Family, Nature, Attractive. Occupation: Server

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 2000 cp.

Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. She carries her fan with her everywhere and carries herself as the perfect lady. She wears a small hat to hide her balding. Her half smiles and white eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

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. She spends most of her days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There she gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: She was raised in a island tribe. Her mother took her hunting and taught her how to get in the mind of other creatures. She spent several years traveling with her friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: She wants to meet her childhood hero.

Ideals: Opinionated. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Adventurer, Nature. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized red coat. She carries a battered lance and tarnished halberd as well. Her hair is long and chestnut with streaks of brown, and is pulled back with small red clips. She has green eyes and a red hat with a black feather.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. She has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a woman enough she will sell her own mother. Money is her most trusted friend.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Ploughman arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. In her 15th year, her parents were killed by a dire rats raid, leaving Verna alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. Recently a tribe of dire rats attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Verna fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and she desires to right it; and balancing her hectic life and new ploughman responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Job, Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 220 gp.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, she wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. She is bald on top and has large auburn tufts of hair around her ears. Her eyes are brown.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. She is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. She was granted divine powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Gifted, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Military. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 1700 sp. Jet (120 gp). Chrysoprase (20 gp). Rock crystal (20 gp).

Description: She appears as an extremely gaunt Human, and stands approximately 5'1". She is dressed in an above average manner, and her gloved hand is found clutching a axe. She has moderate length black hair. Her half smiles and amber eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: In the realm of puns, she cannot help herself. She feels obliged to make them. She is cautious and jumpy. She reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: Yvonne was born the youngest of three triplets. After coming to the age of reason, Yvonne took it upon herself to study the divine arts in their entirety; because of this, she was labeled a dark omen and banished from her homeland. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Spy they were divorced and she won custody of their daughter. She worked as a Bounty Hunter, and she later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent father; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Ideals: Joker, Gifted. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 500 sp.

Description: This southern woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She wears bulky violet painted plate armor. Her chestnut hair is greasy and uncared for. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She resents people who mock her appearance or her, so she has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. She is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with her old comrades. She has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. She graduated from the Naval Academy and went to see the world at the rank of Ensign. She advanced relatively quickly due to her good work ethic, understanding of the chain of command, and natural leadership ability. She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature falchion.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and expand her business

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Rich, Military, Job. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: A thin woman, she clearly needs to put on some weight, but she still has a lot of muscle. She wears yellow robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally she wears more armor. She prefers to carry a crossbow, but if one is not available she will default to her nunchaku. Her chestnut hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. She has gleaming, smiling violet eyes.

Personality: She is intelligent and cunning, but she will too often allow her rage to get the better of her. She will lose her cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. She is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of her. She is by nature obliging.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her father. Through the years after Adrie was born, her father became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the south. Adrie's father didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Athletic, Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic, Shy. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 3000 cp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: She is a paragon of her species. She is larger and stronger than most Gnomes. Her skin is dark but she possesses many green ritualistic tattoos. She wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with small hat. Her blonde hair has been sun bleached extensively. She has violet eyes and a tan hat with a green feather.

Personality: She loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from her. She is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Gnome in existence. Donella enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: The child of a Guard, who enjoyed hunting, Donella was taken on many hunting expeditions. Her mother took her hunting and taught her how to get in the mind of other creatures. Since then, she has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Tanner responsibilities is difficult; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Justice, Optimist. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Nature, Job. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 300 gp.