Description: This malnourished woman wears tattered old clothes. Her white crest is smooth and relatively long. Her ears are large.

Personality: She is business-like. She takes instructions and follows them to the letter. Farideh enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Her necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She was granted necromantic powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: She's looking for her big break; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Professionalism, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 90 gp. 1 Chain shirt.

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She wears brown painted combat armor at almost all times. Her long auburn hair reaches down to her waist. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. She also has developed a complete distrust of the Courier profession.

History: She got into the Interpreter business at a young age. Her childhood dream was to be a Courier, but she was a colossal failure. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and balancing her hectic life and new interpreter responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Terse. Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive, Job. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 400 gp. 4 Alchemist’s fire. 4 Smokesticks.

Description: She wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination, and she perpetually has her sickle ready. Her silver crest is matted, messy, and big. Her red eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She is unhospitable to her core. Her small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. She never wears the same outfit twice, unless she absolutely has to.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Perra grew up listening to her mother's many stories. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. She has dedicated herself to building a better village for her children.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Detective

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 110 gp.

Description: This exceptionally lanky man does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. He has shaved his head bald. His green eyes peer out from beneath his Stetson white hat.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. 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 parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. A freak accident while working with his Sailor mother left him crippled. After a long history of fighting, Halander and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes; and doesn't want to be a banker and was forced into it by his family

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 1100 sp. Chrysoberyl (160 gp). Star rose quartz (20 gp). Rock crystal (20 gp). 4 Alchemist’s fire.

Description: Standing 3'2", this man typically wears red cloth garments or leather armor. His auburn hair is knotted and matted. His brown eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He is underhanded and not above using his wealth and body to get others to do his bidding.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. He was an apprentice working in his father's forge. Some 7 years later his spouse died after the birth of his son. Heartbroken, Ortegar never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his son whom he trained as his father had trained him before.

Motivation: He feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world; and balancing his hectic life and new guard responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Fighting, Impeccable. Bonds: Job, Attractive, In love. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright brown and white, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. Her Stetson hat is riddled with cuts and holes. Her eyes are brown.

Personality: She is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends she is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy herself. The occasional robbery is her preferred attention getting crime, but she mainly uses her means for meeting her own perverse desires.

History: Emma lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. In her 15th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her mother impaled in their home, and her father 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. Being a Architect 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: She has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He is lean but muscular and wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. He has moderate length chestnut hair. His violet eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. He is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with his big mouthed big gutted partner. His partner is his best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. Flattery will make him almost putty in your hands.

History: He was raised in a mountains tribe. He has had some formal singing training, and achieved minor success. He now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Adventurer, Nature, Job. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 90 gp.

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she wears a brown armored body suit, with a simple white line shooting up and back down. Her silver hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. Her green eyes peer out from beneath her wide-brimmed brown hat.

Personality: She tends to agree with only herself unless someone else's opinion sounds like she can profit from it. She tries to control her temper but she can't always stop herself from what she feels what must be done. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: Trained by her father for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. In her 11th year, her parents were killed by a illithids raid, leaving Artin alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. After a long history of fighting, Artin and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: She is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs.

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Religious, Military, Enemies. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 290 gp. 1 Bullseye lantern.

Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking northern young adult. She tends to wear a large blue jacket. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. Her blonde hair is smooth and relatively long. Her blue unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with her opinion, she thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, she can get violently argumentative. She will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: Vadania 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. Cursed with lycanthropy at a very young age, Vadania has worked very hard to control her curse. She has dedicated herself to building a better world.

Motivation: Meet up once more with her childhood friend; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Disease, Impulsive. Bonds: Slave, Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 160 gp.