Description: 5'4" and muscular, this northern woman wears suspenders and violet workpants. Her shirt is brown, and she wears a heavy violet leather apron most of the time. Her head has been shaved. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. Her philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She was forced to fight in gladiatorial arenas alongside her partner. They became the best of friends and one day they managed to break out together and then went their separate ways.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and she has decided she is irredeemable

Ideals: Athletic, Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Sensitive. Occupation: Mason

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 1700 sp. Cloth of gold vestments (110 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (600 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (600 gp).

Description: This man stands a little under 3'7" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. He has a white handlebar mustache and slicked back white hair. His amber eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Navigator arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: He is greedy.

Ideals: Joker, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She wears suspenders and violet workpants. Her shirt is red, and she wears a heavy violet leather apron most of the time. She wears a small hat to cover her moderate length black hair. Her green unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. 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: Sybil was born in the west. At a young age she loved to build and create. She was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Engraver for the past few years.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Poor, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 300 gp. Blue star sapphire (400 gp).

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest. He keeps his silver crest in a flapper bob. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are gold.

Personality: He has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Miner who has hired him part-time. He always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Miner business.

History: Born in the west to a Miner, Gargax learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. Like his father and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Miner. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Bellfounder they were divorced and he won custody of their daughter. He worked as a Miner, and he later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent father.

Ideals: Persistence. Bonds: Has a crush, Job, Family. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 200 sp. Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp).

Description: She wears dark leathers with embroidery. Her tied-back hair is red. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. 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-sister.

History: Oriff was raised in a hard working conservative environment. At a young age both her parents were killed in an accident. Her uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took her in and had her trained in basic self defense. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for her; and she has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day

Ideals: Impeccable. Bonds: Job, Family, Criminal record, Immigrant. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She is generally shirtless and showing off her tattooed chest. Her skin is fair and her fingers are delicate and long. She is bald on top and has large auburn tufts of hair around her ears. Her eyes are likewise brown.

Personality: She dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the north. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her father always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. Brilliant and gifted she never wanted to apply herself. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the north; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Pacifist, Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by her earthly robes.. Her yellow fur is slicked back into a classic pompadour. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are hazel.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, River will drive conversation. Her philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. 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. Since then, she has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and she is content

Ideals: Extrovert, Optimist. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Poor. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 5000 cp. 1 Superior lock.

Description: This slender woman stands about 3'1". She is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright red and grey, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. Her long golden hair reaches down to her waist. Her half smiles and violet eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: She is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. 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: She was born in the south, but her parents moved at a very young age to the west. In her 10th year, her parents were killed by a orcs raid, leaving Maegan alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent father; and revenge

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Family, Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 220 gp.

Description: This woman usually wears her blue robe and has her kukri always slung over her shoulder, and sports empty pouches on her belt. She has a long auburn ponytail with little hanging trinkets. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are brown.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes illithids are coming to abduct people. On top of that she is swayed by a pretty face, and while loyalty to her employer will always come first she doesn't like to hit women.

History: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. While she appears to be a normal Elf, she's... not quite right. Perhaps she's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that she plain doesn't fit in. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: She's in love.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Enemies, Has a crush, Adventurer. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 110 gp.