Description: She is a paragon of her species. She is larger and stronger than most Dwarves. Her skin is dark but she possesses many blue ritualistic tattoos. She is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured. Her red hair is wavy and long. She has gray eyes.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating she would invite many more into her home than her spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. She works hard and plays hard.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Valida grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Valida. 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 unite with her brother; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Hedonist, Mundane. Bonds: Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 110 gp. Zircon (20 gp).

Description: With tan face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright green and red, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. Her brown hair is still thick. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: Deceptive and manipulative this southern gal figured out how to best use her charms to convince people to do what she wants. She is underhanded and not above using her wealth and body to get others to do her bidding.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. A serious injury left her father unemployed and in need of constant care. Her family became saddled with debt trying to care for her infirm father. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: She is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and balancing her hectic life and new weaver responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Debt, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 80 gp.

Description: She prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. She carries her fan with her everywhere and carries herself as the perfect lady. She has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. She wears a colorful flower in her chestnut hair. Her half smiles and gray eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. She works hard and plays hard.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her father always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. She worked as a nervous Butcher and found it very stressful. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Flaws: Hedonist, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Job. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: He wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. He is portly but not overly obese. He keeps his long white crest kept up in a rat tail. His gold unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with his old comrades. He has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: Trained by his mother for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He spent several years traveling with his friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Dragonborn artifacts is his passion; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Military. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 500 sp.

Description: She is a husky woman, who is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Apothecary. Her gray fur is kept up in a ponytail inside a deerstalker hat. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines yellow.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic woman, Flask's first love is herself. Her second love is also herself. The war was a terrible time for her, and Flask does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: Flask was born in the north. At a young age she loved to build and create. Being born in the north, 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 north 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. 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: Wants to raise her children well; and she loathes her own lifestyle

Ideals: Impeccable, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Military, Family. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 310 gp.

Description: This man wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. He wears his golden hair up in a very large beehive style do. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He will rave to anyone who will listen. He disdains his fellow northerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and he is greedy

Flaws: Insomniac, Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: Standing 6'7", this woman is dressed in an above average manner. Her crest is greying and her face has many wrinkles. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She likes to make people angry or surprised. 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: A powerful wizard made her what she is. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She has worked as a Cartwright like her mother before her.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and further expansion of business

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Mentor, Immigrant. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 80 gp. Amber (100 gp). 1 Bullseye lantern.

Description: He is wearing a long, brown cloak. He is physically well-built. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His violet eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. He refers to his adoptive father for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: Norman was born the youngest of three triplets. His father worked until he suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. He had to support his now crippled father and took his father's old job. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and to reunite with his absent father

Ideals: Joker, Entrepeneur, Logical. Flaws: Addict, Antagonistic. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 5000 cp. Chrysoberyl (150 gp).

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she wears well tailored gowns and hats with beautiful decoration. She is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. She has a long blonde ponytail with little hanging trinkets. Her eyes are blue and catlike.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Vorka embodies much of what other species detest in the Half-Orcs. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage daughter.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Banker arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. As a young child she wandered into the woods despite her father's warnings against it. Afterwards she claimed she had encountered illithids who tried to eat her hand. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it.

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Family, Enemies. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.