Description: This fat western woman has a bulbous nose and wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). Her skin is also unnaturally pale. Her long silver hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. Her gray eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes brigands are coming to abduct people. She is very protective of her business, her home, and her spouse. She is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. Her childhood dream was to be a Body Guard, but she was a colossal failure. Being a Tanner 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: Revenge; and she is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Criminal record, Slave, Job. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 50 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears a black collared shirt and green pants. He accessorizes with a blue scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. His crest is scarlet and curly. He has gleaming, smiling gold eyes.

Personality: He is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks his mind. He cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist he will grow angry at them.

History: Fax was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his father was employed at, doing general labor. He was a friend to animals and a trickster. In his defense of animals however he would do severe harm to people. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and he's repulsed by the pc

Flaws: Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Nature, Military. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: Red-brown spinel (130 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: A pudgy woman standing about 6'2" has a big stupid grin on her face most of the time. She prefers to wear flannel. She has styled her dark red hair well, parting it to the right. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She is a Bookbinder first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. She invites people to come help in her community garden.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. In her 13th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her father impaled in their home, and her mother beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. She became a Bookbinder soon after.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Job, Poor. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 20 gp. 2 Antitoxin.

Description: This tall, slender woman tends to wear a grey poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt. Her head has been shaved. Her eyes are brown and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Juliana hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her music career. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. She worked as a nervous Courier and found it very stressful. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and wants her loneliness to end

Ideals: Artistic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A 3'4" southern man, he wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. His silver hair is braided into rings. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: Frouse lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Being born in the south, 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 south 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. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Glassblower they were divorced and he won custody of their son. He worked as a Banker, and he later adopted a second son.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and to reunite with his absent mother

Ideals: Philantrophist, Opinionated. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Banker

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 50 gp. Lapis lazuli (15 gp).

Description: This woman stands a little under 5'7" and is a bit bulky. She is very muscular particularly in the legs. She is dressed in earthy colors with a pastel and white handkerchief worn on her left side. Her fur is red, silky, and of moderate length. Her green eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

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 will often invite strangers home for dinner and talk their ears off. She cares deeply for her spouse and does her best to make sure her guests look presentable.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Shivering grew up listening to her father's many stories. She was one of the best in her class, and was picked up by her current employer. She quickly showed her capability and was soon promoted to a head role. She tends to her Carpenter job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Carpenter responsibilities is difficult; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Persistence, Optimist. Bonds: Attractive, In love, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 140 gp. A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (30 gp).

Description: He is an average looking southern male in his early mid-life. He wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. His moppish brown hair is in a traditional bowl cut. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. He is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories he has discovered

History: Chad was raised in a hard working conservative environment. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a son. He became a Barber soon after.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Opinionated, Logical. Bonds: Attractive, Job, In love. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 2000 cp. A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (180 gp).

Description: With white face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he prefers to wear black pants and tee shirts. His white crest is thinning but still full. His eyes are gold and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic man, Gorbundus's first love is himself. His second love is also himself. Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly.

History: A child with a great deal of poetry talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. A gifted student he started as a Spy, but he got bored and became a Fletcher. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and balancing his hectic life and new fletcher responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Impeccable, Artistic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Job, Military. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 5000 cp.

Description: She is a small woman, but exceptionally fit. She dresses like a well dressed Mortician does. Her dark red hair is thinning but still full. She has white eyes.

Personality: She is a Mortician first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. She has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. She inherited a moderately successful company from her mother. Under her leadership it has flourished, and using capital from her venture she effectively owns an entire region. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Mortician.

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

Ideals: Athletic, Fighting. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 100 gp. Chrysoberyl (70 gp).