Description: A woman with a calm yet intense air about her, she wears a blue tunic with grey highlights, and long brown pants that bunch up around her shoes. Her hair, while still mostly golden, has prominent grey streaks. She has blue eyes.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. She is a ruthless business woman, a trait she acquired from her father.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. Ostracized due to the divine powers of her oldest sister, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Gnomes became a terror of the countryside. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and retire the richest woman in the south

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Military, Adventurer. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 700 sp. 1 Everburning torch.

Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his axe with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. He wears a feathered hat to cover his moderate length auburn hair. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He lacks restraint and is impulsive. He jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Like his mother and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Healer. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Healer for hire.

Motivation: Expand his business; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Impulsive, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 400 gp. Iolite (60 gp). Banded agate (12 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A woman of a pale complexion, she wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). She keeps her white hair in a pixie cut. Her green eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: While she is on the job, she is grim and serious. She understands how dangerous the world is and the need to stay safe. Any perceived weakness will be pressed and exploited. She is seen as merciless and passionate.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her father. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. Being a Layabout 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 possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal.

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: He is a physically imposing dark-skinned man. He wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. His golden hair is cut short. He has gleaming, smiling violet eyes.

Personality: He trusts no one. He is not readily capable for forgiveness and his ire never leaves him. He is kind towards other men and children and will generally offer men help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to him.

History: Aerdeth was born with his mother's beautiful face. In his youth he was part of a gang. He got caught, but did not rat out his comrades and served his time in prison. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: He is wracked by social anxiety; and he feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 150 gp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: This woman is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of her veins is visible when she is not flexing. Her shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for her due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. Her brown hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a butterfly scrunchie. Her hazel eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk she knows how to make people feel guilty. 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: Gifted from a young age, Naivara studied abroad. She married young, but lost her spouse to dire rats. 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. Naivara fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

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

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep brown leather and dull green iron scale mail. She carries with her a set of sais on her belt, each one with a sapphire on the hilt. She sports a flattop fur cut. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, she has a hard time making friends. 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: Gifted from a young age, Emerald studied abroad. Her mother was a soldier and died while she was still young. Emerald was left her mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. After a long history of fighting, Emerald and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Marry her sister to traveling adventurers.

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, Military. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 130 gp.

Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath her coat. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. Her amber eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: Deceptive and manipulative this northern gal figured out how to best use her charms to convince people to do what she wants. Any perceived weakness will be pressed and exploited. She is seen as merciless and passionate.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Being born in the north, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the north for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way west. She has been saving her money to try and buy her brother's freedom.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and an old rival family wants her found

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 1000 cp. Coral (70 gp).

Description: He stands about 2'11" and likes to wear ponchos typically of a light red in addition to tight pants. His left leg appears badly burned and disfigured. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: Hobart speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. He is clearly well-traveled and educated. He is harsh and unforgiving.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for him; and he is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: She is dressed in earthy colors with a red and tan handkerchief worn on her left side. Her silver hair is still thick. This gray eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She is a sleazy, sleazy gal. She has no qualms about using her powers of suggestion to get people to do what she wants. She does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: Lidda was born with her mother's beautiful face. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. She eventually got the idea of being the protector of her homeland from reading books, and has made it her duty.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Bather and was forced into it by her family; and to unite with her sister

Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Guardian, Family. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 30 gp.