Description: She stands about 4'9" and wears tattered old clothes. Her right leg appears badly burned and disfigured. Her fur is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. 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: Shivering was born the youngest of three triplets. Being born in the west, 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 west 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 north. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 3000 cp.

Description: A middle-aged man, he wears tan painted combat armor at almost all times, and is pretty ugly. His black hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a small hat. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He does not care much for physical appearances, nor does he care much for other people. He does however care about what he wants and getting it. He is obsessed with his god.

History: A powerful necromancer made him what he is. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and he is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Religious, Mentor, Rich. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 400 sp.

Description: She prefers to wear black pants and tee shirts. She carries a battered flail and tarnished club as well. Her crest is cut close to her head. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She considers herself a woman of culture and sophistication. She likes a good challenge to her wits. She has a cruel streak; something she gained from her previous mentor. She harbors resentment against her former mentor.

History: When she was but 3 years old her parents immigrated from the south. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: She feels the way she acts is they only way to get by in the world.

Ideals: Fighting, Impeccable. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Mentor, Immigrant. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 160 gp.

Description: He wears baggy yellow pantaloons and a tan scarf. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. Sporting a brown mohawk and bushy mustache this man's hair draws a lot of attention. His skin is flawless and his blue eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: He considers himself the protector of his home. He feels this is his duty and calling. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. Laucian was born on a far northern mountains where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Animal Trainer. He left for the north, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: To clean up the streets.

Ideals: Professionalism. Bonds: Attractive, Guardian, Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: 5'2" and lanky with angular features, she is an attractive figure. She typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep brown leather and dull green iron scale mail. She has slicked back black hair. Her eyes are violet and she is always smoking a pipe.

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 lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She has been saving her money to try and buy her sister's freedom.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent father; and she has money and likes to spend it

Flaws: Shy, Lazy. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Family. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 500 sp.

Description: She wears a tattered pair of loose black pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. She is portly but not overly obese. Her hair is dark red and curly. She has red eyes.

Personality: A grumpy gal she will invite people to lunch so she can critique them. Yet she still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her poetry with anyone who is interested.

History: Born in the east her family was never financially stable. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered poetry. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Family. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 100 gp. Lapis lazuli (14 gp). Star ruby (700 gp).

Description: This man stands a little under 6'0" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His head has been shaved. He has several tiny topaz earrings on each ear.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. He uses divination through singing.

History: His father raised him in a mountain cabin. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He bought a shortbow and has really upped his game hunting, due to his understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: He is greedy; and money/treasure

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Nature. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: Malachite (8 gp). 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: The light-skinned man stands 2'10" and wears red leather gloves, a red jacket, and tight pants. He wears his white hair up in a very large beehive style do. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating he would invite many more into his home than his spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Over the years he perfected his riding and shooting skills. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Insomniac, Disease. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 200 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: Her left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise she appears quite healthy. She wears a yellow shirt with thin brown vertical stripes and white pants. Her hair is short and blonde. Her half smiles and violet eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: She has schizophrenia that causes her to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. She is obsessed with her god.

History: Her psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Brilliant and gifted she never wanted to apply herself. She was granted psionic powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Gifted, Logical. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Religious. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 90 gp.