Description: This southern man is abnormally tall. He very much looks the part of a Healer. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. His brown hair is lengthy. His ears are large.

Personality: Norman wants to be seen as a stoic, levelheaded, noble Sorcerer, so he tries to act the part. He does a good job, for the most part... He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. A gifted student he started as a Bellfounder, but he got bored and became a Healer. He left for the south, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Healer responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 6000 cp. Pink pearl (130 gp).

Description: This malnourished woman wears a black top hat and black clothes. Her long white crest is drawn into a two foot long braid. Her red unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She considers herself the perfect lady. She makes a point to always show proper etiquette and frequently critiques the etiquette of others. 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-brother.

History: Her necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Raiann 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 Raiann. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: She possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal; and seeks redemption

Ideals: Impeccable, Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Poor, Family, Criminal record. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 130 gp. Star rose quartz (50 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This woman dresses like a well dressed Dilettante does, and sports empty pouches on her belt. Her black hair is singed and shortened. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines green.

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. To her fellows she is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: She was born in the east, but her parents moved at a very young age to the west. Because her father participated in the massacre of their homeland, brigands burned their ranch to the ground and forced them out. She was preparing to flee to the east, but the outbreak of war prevented her and her mother from journeying east to reunite her family. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge; and she wants revenge against brigands

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Enemies, Immigrant. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 110 gp.

Description: She has a missing right arm. She likes to wear ponchos typically of a light white in addition to tight pants. Her long silver hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. Her fierce brown eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes illithids are coming to abduct people. Flattery will make her almost putty in your hands.

History: She got into the Adventurer business at a young age. In her 15th year, her parents were killed by a illithids raid, leaving Shautha alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. She has been saving her money to try and buy her brother's freedom.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Enemies, Job, Family. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: This younger middle-aged woman wears skinny pants and wears a green and red robe with the hood down, and a wedding ring on her left hand. She wears her chestnut hair up. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She is quiet and unassuming. She ignores others and carries on with her job unassumingly. She is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: Astaro was born the youngest of three triplets. Her mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her mother was legitimate. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Ploughman for the past few years.

Motivation: She is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Logical. Bonds: In love, Job, Family, Religious. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This slender woman stands about 5'6". She is renowned for her bright yellow dresses and hats. She has done her best to style her white hair to look like a famous performer. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: Katherine hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her poetry career. Katherine enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Katherine was born with her father's beautiful face. She has had some formal poetry training, and achieved minor success. She has recently attracted an admirer that believes she's playing hard to get.

Motivation: She's attracted to the PC; and expand her business

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Has a crush, Job. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 150 gp. 1 Breastplate.

Description: Her skin is bronze and flawless. She wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with white lining and desert motifs. She is an epitome of beauty. Her long chestnut hair reaches down to her waist. This hazel eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She is not truly malevolent, but she is obsessed with singing. She constantly tries to fill her life with singing. She is used to getting what she wants. In part because she is a meticulous planner.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Bella grew up listening to her mother's many stories. After coming to the age of reason, Bella took it upon herself to study the necromantic arts in their entirety; because of this, she was labeled a dark omen and banished from her homeland. She has became unsatisfied with her lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and she wants to meet her childhood hero

Ideals: Artistic, Professionalism, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 4000 cp. 1 Silk rope.

Description: He appears as an extremely gaunt Half-Elf, and stands approximately 5'1". He wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body, and his gloved hand is found clutching a ceremonial dagger. His long red hair reaches down to his waist. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He is a Miller first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing painting.

History: When he was but 6 years old his parents immigrated from the north. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Miller. He used his abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and to be a weaver again

Ideals: Artistic, Philantrophist, Fighting. Bonds: Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 150 gp.

Description: This northern woman wears a worn and beaten armor. Her clothes are grease stained in places. With bright blonde hair. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She is curt in most of her responses. She prefers to keep her word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. Her philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

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 took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Elves in the north were limited. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and to settle down with her crush

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 200 sp.