Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She wears a large hat to cast shadows over her face and wears ponchos to better hide her body. Her hair is red and curly. She has gleaming, smiling gray eyes.

Personality: She never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. She enjoys reading and quiet.

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. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Dwarves in the south were limited. She hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Optimist, Logical. Flaws: Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 50 gp.

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she wears a black vest and prefers green and black shirts. Her boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. Her silver hair is braided into rings. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are hazel.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. She is very protective of her business, her home, and her spouse. She is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. She was taken from her home at a very young age. One night she noticed a nearby shooting star which she hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. She has done her darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: A rival would like her out of the picture.

Ideals: Persistence, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Slave. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 1000 cp.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She wears a black vest and prefers white and brown shirts. Her boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. She has done her best to style her white crest to look like a famous performer. Her red unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. Cursed with lycanthropy at a very young age, Hillanot has worked very hard to control her curse. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the west.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 400 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: With black face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright black and yellow, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. She wears her golden hair up in a very large beehive style do. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: The woman has a huge range of feeling. She will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how she will be a better person from this day on. She also is a firm believer in the womanly ideal.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Zagga was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. Being born in the south, 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 south 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 west. She leaves a trail of broken hearts and full pockets wherever she goes.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother; and to reunite with her absent father

Flaws: Emotional, Impulsive. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Mentor, Family. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 9000 cp.

Description: She wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with small hat. Her skin is fair and her fingers are delicate and long. Her auburn hair is greasy and uncared for. She has a dull look in her brown eyes.

Personality: She is a very happy person and has lots of energy. To put it simply, she's a very lovable idiot. She has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Emmeline was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. Since then, she has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: She feels threatened by others; and she is terrified, and will act out of fear

Ideals: Optimist, Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 230 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This western man wears a grey cloak and cross-gartered tan stockings. His clothes are grease stained in places. He has dyed his greying red hair a little too much giving a sharp red color. His eyes are likewise hazel.

Personality: He is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks his mind. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Dwarves in the west were limited. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and he loathes his own lifestyle

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Slave. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 140 gp. 1 Backpack.

Description: Her skin is bronze and flawless. She wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates her frame. She is an epitome of beauty. She has a very tight haircut. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: A deeply religious woman she believes everything happens for a reason. She has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: She was born at the edge of vast desert. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father 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. Unlike her family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, she wanted to work in the city. She has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Architect responsibilities is difficult; and she is wracked by social anxiety

Flaws: Fearful, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Nature, Job. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 30 pp.

Description: This man is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of his veins is visible when he is not flexing. His shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for him due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. Sporting a chestnut mohawk and bushy mustache this man's hair draws a lot of attention. His eyes are brown.

Personality: He is shy and timid. He has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: He was born into a rich family. A gifted student he started as a Merchant, but he got bored and became a Hunter. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Hunter for the past few years.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and to be a merchant again

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: This southern woman wears a simple blue robe with brown stripes complete with hood. Her clothes are grease stained in places. She has shaved her head bald. This violet eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food she seems plenty friendly. 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: Naivara 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. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: She has passion for adventuring and risk; and retire the richest woman in the south

Ideals: Philantrophist, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 200 sp. 1 Banded mail.