Description: This fat southern woman has a bulbous nose and wears an entirely brown suit with black socks and a vest with buckled shoes. Her skin is also unnaturally pale. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. Her gray eyes peer out from beneath her small brown hat.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food she seems plenty friendly. She invites people to come help in her community garden.

History: Ida lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. From there she went from mercenary job to mercenary job. Lacking all sense, she decided to go on an adventure. She picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and nothing but the best is good enough for her

Ideals: Philantrophist, Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He is lean but muscular and wears a blue vest and prefers white and black shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. His brown hair is still thick. His blue eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: Alvyn is depressed about a lot of things. He tends to be a nihilist. He also hits on women, regardless of circumstances.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Miller arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: He is greedy; and money/treasure

Flaws: Ugly, Addict, Depressed. Bonds: Has a crush, Rich. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 190 gp. 2 Smokesticks.

Description: He is a physically imposing light-skinned man. He wears suspenders and grey workpants. His shirt is blue, and he wears a heavy grey leather apron most of the time. His hair is cut close to his head. His amber eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks his mind. He is always in debt, since he spends his money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: He comes from a rich eastern family. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. 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 possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal; and seeks redemption

Flaws: Shy, Impulsive. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 110 pp. Smoky quartz (60 gp).

Description: This woman is renowned for her bright brown dresses and hats. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized sapphire on her left hand. Her silver hair is well kept. She has several tiny sapphire earrings on each ear.

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 terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes her no end of embarrassment.

History: She was born into a rich family. Being born in the east, 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 east 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 south. She has been saving her money to try and buy her sister's freedom.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found; and nothing but the best is good enough for her

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Shy, Forgetful. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 10 pp. Moonstone (80 gp).

Description: This slender woman stands about 5'6". She wears baggy brown pantaloons and a green scarf. Her gray fur has been sun bleached extensively. Her eyes are a pleasant copper.

Personality: She is quite rude, and likes to deride her opponents skill and shout insults at them. She is accommodating to her spouse and as such limits her hospitality. She is brave and levelheaded in the face of danger and has proven herself a capable leader.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. She was an apprentice working in her father's forge. She tends to her Cartwright job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and she has passion for adventuring and risk

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: In love, Religious, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 40 gp.

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. She keeps her black hair in a flapper bob. This blue eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. She is fiercely devoted to her mother, and views her mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-sister.

History: Born to a Adventurer, her mother struggled to pay the bills. She was an apprentice working in her mother's forge. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her sons to still be retired.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister.

Bonds: Attractive, Job, Family, Poor. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (500 gp). Solid gold idol (500 gp). Solid gold idol (500 gp). 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears a simple green robe with black stripes complete with hood. He wears a small hat to cover his moderate length purple hair. His eyes are red and catlike.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes gnolls are coming to abduct people. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. Being born in the east, 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 east 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 west. He left for the east, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent mother.

Bonds: Immigrant, Enemies, Rich, Mentor, Family. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 70 gp.

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she 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. She has moderate length brown hair. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. She is cautious and jumpy. She reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: Vapula was born with her mother's beautiful face. Vapula abandoned her home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. She survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. She did whatever it took for her to survive. Lacking all sense, she decided to go on an adventure. She picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally.

Flaws: Shy, Insane, Fearful. Bonds: Adventurer, Attractive. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 50 gp. 1 Smokesticks.

Description: She wears a tan cloak and cross-gartered white stockings. She has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. Her silver hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She has schizophrenia that causes her to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. She does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of dire rats may trigger it at times.

History: Her necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. At some point she was captured by dire rats and was tortured. After several years of this she finally managed to escape. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: A deep hatred of dire rats; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and she desires to right it

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Insane, Disease. Bonds: Enemies, Slave. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.