Description: A woman of a pale complexion, she wears an entirely yellow suit with white socks and a vest with buckled shoes. Her red hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

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. As long as the job gets done she does not care how it got done.

History: She was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for her. It may also be what makes her so good at details. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her mother gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her mother, who blamed her for driving them apart. After a long history of fighting, Ermina and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Antagonistic, Disease, Insomniac. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: Chrysoberyl (130 gp).

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. He has styled his silver crest well, parting it to the right. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Valorean is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: A powerful brothel owner made him what he is. His parents divorced when he was young, and his mother gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his mother, who blamed him for driving them apart. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Mentor. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: This man wears a suit in poor condition. It has not been laundered in sometime and has been worn in activities one would not normally wear a suit during. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized emerald on his right hand. His dark red hair is greasy and uncared for. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady red eyes.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. He is a thrill seeker, he laughs at people and throws down challenges. He is highly competitive and combative.

History: He was raised in a mountains tribe. His mother took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it.

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Rich, Job, Nature. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her deerstalker hat is riddled with cuts and holes. Her red unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

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. She tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. Since then, she has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and retire the richest woman in the north

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Joker, Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 140 gp. 1 Small steel mirror.

Description: 3'3" and muscular, this western man wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. He has red hair. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes brigands are coming to abduct people. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing dancing.

History: He was born at the edge of vast forest. Being born in the west, 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 west 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. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and he wants revenge against brigands

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic. Bonds: Enemies, Nature, Family, Job. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 10 pp. Jet (160 gp).

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he is typically in his Mortician uniform. His silver hair is braided into rings. His hazel unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. He is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: A powerful necromancer made him what he is. A gifted student he started as a Sculptor, but he got bored and became a Mortician. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Disease, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Mentor. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 6000 cp.

Description: She wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. She carries with her a set of rapiers on her belt, each one with a ruby on the hilt. She has done her best to style her golden hair to look like a famous performer. This green eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She considers herself a woman of culture and sophistication. She likes a good challenge to her wits. She invites people to come help in her community garden.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Myathethil grew up listening to her father'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 now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: She's looking for her big break.

Ideals: Fighting, Impeccable, Philantrophist. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 110 gp.

Description: She wears a blue collared shirt and tan skirt. She accessorizes with a black scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across her shirt, and she perpetually has her club ready. She is bald on top and has large auburn tufts of hair around her ears. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. She passes on several rewards to people in need. She makes a point to leave places better than she found them.

History: Gifted from a young age, Shamil studied abroad. Ostracized due to the divine powers of her oldest sister, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Gnomes became a terror of the countryside. She now spends her time doing works of charity.

Motivation: Many gnolls want her driven away.

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 350 gp.

Description: The dark-skinned woman stands 3'0" and wears a fancy blue dress. She has a very tight haircut. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She has two modes she varies between. On the job she is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job she is a party animal. The occasional robbery is her preferred attention getting crime, but she mainly uses her means for meeting her own perverse desires.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. When she was little, her rather wealthy family often ventured across the mountains to a summer home near a ruined castle. She would wander through that ruined castle and adventure through it for days. One day while adventuring a terrible storm took place and she was stranded inside. Her family spent the next few days looking for her, and could only assume she was dead when it came time to leave. The family never returned to the mountains due to the painful memories there. Mardnab took refuge in the ruined castle and found the beat up crossbow and armor she uses now. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: Expand her business; and she's repulsed by the pc

Flaws: Mundane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Criminal record, Nature. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: Just what you see.