Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she wears a robe, a symbol of death around her neck, and a hand crossbow on her belt. She has dyed her greying chestnut hair a little too much giving a sharp chestnut color. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep violet.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. She is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. In her youth she was a Cook, and wanted to be a champion fighter when she grew up. She was working during a period of war, and as one of the natives she lived in fear of joining the others in being slaughtered. She saw the brutality and swore off her fighting aspirations, taking her younger sister on her back after seeing her parents die, and fled the country. She bought a hand crossbow and has really upped her game hunting, due to her understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Fighting, Disciplined, Joker. Flaws: PTSD. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: This malnourished man wears a suit in poor condition. It has not been laundered in sometime and has been worn in activities one would not normally wear a suit during. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His gray unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: His martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His parents enrolled him in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that he could practice his martial talents. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature pickaxe.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Adventurer, Poor, Military. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 20 gp. 1 Breastplate.

Description: This woman wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. She is muscular with a powerful set of arms. She wears her white hair up in a very large beehive style do. Her hazel eyes peer out from beneath her top grey hat.

Personality: She dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the north. She will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. Her father took her hunting and taught her how to get in the mind of other creatures. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: She is wracked by social anxiety; and retire the richest woman in the north

Ideals: Pacifist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Impulsive, Fearful. Bonds: Poor, Nature. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This man prefers to wear white clothing when he does not wear armor. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. His tied-back hair is white. His violet eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: His voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl he speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of his tone. He is a bit of a macho man 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 to a Body Guard, Nil learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. Recently a tribe of brigands attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Nil fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Addict, Cynical, Ugly. Bonds: Nature, Job. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 70 gp.

Description: A middle-aged woman, she wears a worn and beaten armor, and is pretty ugly. Her long orange fur is drawn into a two foot long braid. Her eyes are green and catlike.

Personality: She goes out her way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one she won't accept into her heart. She is fiercely devoted to her father, and views her father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-brother.

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. At a young age she wooed the heart of her future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. Some 3 years later her spouse died after the birth of her daughter. Heartbroken, Drifting never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her daughter whom she trained as her father had trained her before.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother; and wants to raise her children well

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, In love. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 1000 cp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: She is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Bather, and carries scythes. She keeps her black hair in a pixie cut. Her eyes are amber and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She considers herself a woman of culture and sophistication. She likes a good challenge to her wits. She tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. Being born in the east, 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 east 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 south. By chance she met her sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and dragonborn compassion

Ideals: Fighting, Impeccable, Optimist. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Poor, Family. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This woman is very fat, and wears a fine chain shirt which she covers with blue colored cloaks and clothing. Her chestnut hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines green.

Personality: Quiet and reserved she prefers to listen than to talk. She will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. She is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: She was born into a rich family. She dropped out of school before completing her studies. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and she is greedy

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Lazy. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 1400 sp. Eye agate (8 gp). Tourmaline (140 gp).

Description: A middle-aged woman, she is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing grey cape and mantle trimmed with soft black waves gently in the breeze, and is pretty ugly. Her hair is long and chestnut with streaks of silver, and is pulled back with small grey clips. Her eyes are hazel and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks her mind. She is harsh and unforgiving.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her mother always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. Cursed with vampirism at a very young age, Agnes has worked very hard to control her curse. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and she's repulsed by the pc

Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally she sports a green coat. Her silver hair is greasy and uncared for. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. She seeks to pay back kindness whenever she gets the chance. Whether it be in the form of unwanted serenades or the latest gossip she always seeks to do solids for her friends.

History: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. She dropped out of school before completing her studies. She used her abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Sensitive, Insane. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 300 sp. Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (90 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp).