Description: She is lean but muscular and wears a large hat to cast shadows over her face and wears ponchos to better hide her body. Her Stetson hat is riddled with cuts and holes. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: In the realm of puns, she cannot help herself. She feels obliged to make them. She is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. Her father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. When she grew older, she became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. She began work as a mercenary for hire. She would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: She desires power and/or immortality; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 370 gp. 1 Darkwood Shield.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She typically wears brown cloth garments or leather armor. She has cinnamon fur. Her eyes are yellow and beady.

Personality: She is not truly malevolent, but she is obsessed with poetry. She constantly tries to fill her life with poetry. 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: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. She graduated from the Naval Academy and went to see the world at the rank of Ensign. She advanced relatively quickly due to her good work ethic, understanding of the chain of command, and natural leadership ability. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To unite with her sister; and wants to raise her children well

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Family, Military. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 5000 cp. Peridot (40 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: He is a husky man, who wears just a violet suit. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His eyes are likewise hazel. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: While he is on the job, he is grim and serious. He understands how dangerous the world is and the need to stay safe. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. He leaves a trail of broken hearts and full pockets wherever he goes.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact.

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Rich, Mentor. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 270 gp. Tiger eye turquoise (5 gp). Chrysoberyl (130 gp).

Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She tends to wear a large grey jacket. Her hair is auburn and very short. Her blue eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: Melissa speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. She is clearly well-traveled and educated. She is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

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. Her mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She got away from her former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: Many drow want her driven away; and a deep hatred of drow

Ideals: Athletic, Impeccable, Gifted. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 140 gp. 1 Healer’s kit.

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She prefers to wear violet clothing when she does not wear armor. She has wavy golden hair. She has blue eyes and a violet hat with a white feather.

Personality: She is irritable and easily angered. She is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use her stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. Around other people she will do her best to conceal her emotions and appear jolly.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother 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. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: Halfling compassion; and she uses money and sex appeal to get what she needs

Flaws: Antagonistic, Shy, Racist. Bonds: Immigrant, Rich, Attractive. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 10000 cp. Sardonyx (20 gp). Sard (20 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (4 gp).

Description: This late middle aged woman dresses in green turtlenecks beneath a blue coat with tan slacks and is in decent physical shape. Her crest is bronze and curly. Her eyes are likewise red. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She is business-like. She takes instructions and follows them to the letter. She also is a firm believer in the womanly ideal.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. 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: To reunite with her absent mother.

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive, Mundane. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 10 pp.

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what he was had he not made sure his armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit he is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His golden hair is knotted and matted. His violet eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He takes great joy in being the best Assassin in town.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. He was taken from his home at a very young age. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and retire the richest man in the south

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Job, Slave. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 100 sp.

Description: A middle-aged woman, she wears a violet vest and prefers pastel and black shirts. Her boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down, and is pretty ugly. Her head has been shaved. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady amber eyes.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. She lacks moral complications. She does what she is told to by employers but not much else. She spends her money on whatever she fancies at the time.

History: Gifted from a young age, Jane studied abroad. 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 remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: Rhodochrosite (8 gp). Violet garnet (200 gp).

Description: She wears long strands of sapphire and short red dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. She has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. Her white hair is thinning but still full. Her eyes are hazel and catlike.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. She likes to tell stories.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. In her 18th 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. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: She is terrified, and will act out of fear; and retire the richest woman in the south

Ideals: Philantrophist, Entrepeneur, Fighting. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 50 gp. Hematite (8 gp). Jet (160 gp). Alexandrite (500 gp).