Description: 5'0" and muscular, this northern woman prefers to wear grey pants and tee shirts. She has slicked back auburn hair. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. Flattery will make her almost putty in your hands.

History: When she was but 8 years old her parents immigrated from the north. While she appears to be a normal Human, she's... not quite right. Perhaps she's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that she plain doesn't fit in. She eventually got the idea of being the protector of her homeland from reading books, and has made it her duty.

Motivation: To clean up the streets; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Insane, Selfish. Bonds: Guardian, Immigrant. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 5000 cp.

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy white stubble. She prefers to wear brown pants and tee shirts. She has a hunchback. She has shaved her head bald. This green eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. She is ready at a moment's notice to give into her darker urges. She is a real pyromaniac and does not care who the fire hurts. She often ends up burning people alive in the fires she starts.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform Being a Masseuse kept her interest for a while, but then she became depressed and bored. So she turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: She is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions.

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Criminal record, Slave. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 50 gp.

Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking eastern young adult. She wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her nunchaku with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. She has wavy black hair. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. Her job bores her to no end. She has decided to make it more interesting.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her mother always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. Her family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The mother sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. She saw this and took pride in her mother's willingness to do anything to win. She has dedicated herself to building a better village for her children.

Motivation: She desires power and/or immortality; and meet up once more with her childhood friend

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Slave, Attractive, Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 1 Banded mail.

Description: A stocky darker skinned man, he is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. His head has been shaved. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks his mind. He disdains his fellow northerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: He was born at the edge of vast mountains. His parents were killed by drow in a raid when he was still a young child. The drow captured him, and made him a slave and general play-thing. He was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to his deformed appearance. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by drow, and he desires to right it; and revenge

Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Immigrant, Nature, Enemies. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 30 pp.

Description: This woman is generally shirtless and showing off her tattooed chest. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized jet on her left hand. Her black hair is cut short. She is baby faced.

Personality: Quiet and reserved she prefers to listen than to talk. She will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. She uses divination through singing.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. Over the years she perfected her riding and shooting skills. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: Marry her sister to traveling adventurers; and wants to raise her children well

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Shy, Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Nature, Family. Occupation: Spy

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 500 sp. Tiger eye turquoise (9 gp).

Description: She wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates her frame. Her white hair is cut short. Her eyes are likewise blue.

Personality: She is a very happy person and has lots of energy. To put it simply, she's a very lovable idiot. When triggered she is a bloodthirsty maniac, stopping at nothing and killing everything for almost an hour.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when gnolls swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. She moved out east to avoid the crime she committed. She has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: She feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help; and she is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 2000 cp.

Description: 6'7" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He wears a worn and beaten armor. His crest is black and very short. His eyes are gold and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Herbalist for hire.

Motivation: Expand his business; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Guardian, Job. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 200 sp. Red garnet (150 gp).

Description: This woman wears a large hat to cast shadows over her face and wears ponchos to better hide her body, and sports empty pouches on her belt. Her auburn hair is singed and shortened. Her amber eyes peer out from beneath her feathered black hat.

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. Despite her manner, she is extremely passionate and proud of her job, and she prides herself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: Nagrette was born in the south. At a young age she loved to build and create. She was taken from her home at a very young age. She struck the Cartwright job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Philantrophist, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Slave. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 150 gp.

Description: He wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. He is physically well-built. His hair is purple and very short. His black eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to his current location. Recently a tribe of illithids attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Thamuz fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and retire the richest man in the south

Ideals: Fighting, Joker, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 100 pp.