Description: With yellow face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she wears a grey shirt with thin white vertical stripes and yellow pants. Her white hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. Her hazel unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She runs her personal life as if detached from it. She organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits she will get from it. She takes great pride in her work and is very well organized. Her planner is full of calendar events.

History: Helen was born into a poor family. Growing up, she dreamt of becoming a Sorcerer, to bring honor to her family’s name. When she came of age, she applied for a position with her town's local guard, looking to work her way up via merit and eventually become a Sorcerer in service of a powerful lord somewhere. Her childhood dream was to be a Tanner, but she was a colossal failure. She tends to her Mayor job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and she desires power and/or immortality

Flaws: Disease, Selfish. Bonds: Job, Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 2000 cp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He is well dressed, constantly wearing a tan suit, grey shirt, and violet tie. His skin is fair and his fingers are delicate and long. He sports a long golden beard, and similarly colored long hair. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. He loves being with his children and actually smiles when they are around. He would do anything for them. He dislikes his ex a great deal.

History: His martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. Through the years after Aust was born, his mother became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the west. Aust's mother didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To pay off his debts; and he made a deal with a demon which lead to his current lot in life, and he's becoming increasingly nervous about it

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic, Ugly. Bonds: Family, Debt. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: This younger middle-aged woman wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally she sports a green coat, and a wedding ring on her left hand. She wears her red crest up. Her eyes are red and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She hates Dragonborns with a passion. As such she is filled with self loathing. She is kind towards other women and children and will generally offer women help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to her.

History: Vezera lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Her mother disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her mother, she was betrayed dozens of times. She has since married many spouses, only to have them die. She claims to not be responsible.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and doesn't want to be a scribe and was forced into it by her family

Ideals: Philantrophist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: In love, Family. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 160 gp. Amber (40 gp). 1 Banded mail.

Description: 5'8" and lanky with angular features, she is an attractive figure. She wears skinny pants and wears a brown and green robe with the hood down. Her brown fur is lengthy. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. She enjoys reading and quiet.

History: She was born at the edge of vast plains. She dropped out of school to support her sick mother, and resented it. She was granted necromantic powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion; and to unite with her sister

Ideals: Gifted, Logical. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Family. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 300 sp. 1 Backpack.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, she wears a blue Stetson hat and blue clothes. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. She has gleaming, smiling gray eyes.

Personality: She is a melancholic, but persistent worker. She resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. The war was a terrible time for her, and Orla does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: Orla lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Orla liked to wander the woods near her home when she was young, something she still likes to do at least once a week. She never liked modest clothing or shoes, so she would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and she developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and to unite with her brother

Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Poor, Military, Family, Nature. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 310 gp. 1 Everburning torch.

Description: His right side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. He has wavy brown hair. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He is a Dilettante first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. Any perceived weakness will be pressed and exploited. He is seen as merciless and passionate.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. Nim was born on a far eastern mountains where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Dilettante. He has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Dilettante responsibilities is difficult; and to be a mercenary again

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Criminal record, Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 300 sp.

Description: He is in excellent shape and dresses in tan turtlenecks beneath a violet coat with pastel slacks. He has shaved his head bald. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. He has a habit of throwing himself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: He was born in a small plains village. His father took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Impulsive. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 230 gp.

Description: Her skin has the orange glow of too much sun. She does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. Her golden hair is knotted and matted. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She is a woman who does what she needs to. She will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. She is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: Eva was raised in a hard working conservative environment. When Eva reached her early adolescence her Half-Elf father passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, she decided to travel. Her rounds led her into the Army with a few individuals who would become her life-long companions. She has worked as a Painter like her father before her.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Logical. Bonds: Criminal record, Job, Military. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 1000 cp.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She very much looks the part of a Masseuse. She has moderate length white hair. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. She claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day she will do what she thinks is right.

History: Lia was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Like her mother and her sister before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Masseuse. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Justice, Logical. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Job, Poor. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 20 gp. 1 Banded mail.