Description: A pudgy woman standing about 2'11" has a big stupid grin on her face most of the time. She wears a white collared shirt and blue skirt. She accessorizes with a black scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across her shirt. Her white hair is unkempt and raggedy. Her eyes are likewise green.

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. She disdains her fellow easterners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: The child of eastern immigrants she idolized her father. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her father gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her father, who blamed her for driving them apart. Some 9 years later her spouse died after the birth of her daughter. Heartbroken, Verna never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her daughter whom she trained as her father had trained her before.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC.

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, In love, Immigrant. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 2000 cp. 1 Silk rope.

Description: This western woman is abnormally tall. She usually wears her tan robe and has her pickaxe always slung over her shoulder. Her whole body is exceptionally muscular. She has a long silver ponytail with little hanging trinkets. Her ears are large.

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. She constantly seizes attention wherever she goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. She likes to think of herself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: When she was but 7 years old her parents immigrated from the west. Her father was very strict, and drilled into her lessons on being the perfect lady. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Blacksmith.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Blacksmith responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 900 sp. Hematite (14 gp).

Description: She wears a simple black robe with pastel stripes complete with hood. She is physically well-built. Her black hair is lengthy. Her red eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She is intelligent and cunning, but she will too often allow her rage to get the better of her. She will lose her cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. 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: Born to a Unemployed, her father struggled to pay the bills. Her father was a soldier and died while she was still young. Aym was left her father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to orcs demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: She's in love; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by orcs, and she desires to right it

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Enemies, Poor, Military, Has a crush. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 310 gp. 1 Chain shirt.

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he usually wears his brown robe and has his greataxe always slung over his shoulder. His golden hair is singed and shortened. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with his opinion, he thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, he can get violently argumentative. He is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. His parents enrolled him in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that he could practice his divine talents. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Ideals: Opinionated, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what she was had she not made sure her armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit she wears green trousers with black and grey striped suspenders. She wears various colorful collared shirts. Her hair is short and brown. She has white eyes and a green hat with a black feather.

Personality: She does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. More though she will beg to come along on any journeys. She will attempt to stowaway on any ship she can in the hopes that it will get her further away.

History: Her necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Her first spouse was a Sellsword, they had one daughter, but her spouse won total custody. Without her spouse to temper her she grew out of control. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion; and doesn't want to be a dilettante and was forced into it by her family

Ideals: Justice, Gifted. Bonds: Slave, Family. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 1800 sp.

Description: A woman with a calm yet intense air about her, she is dressed in earthy colors with a white and black handkerchief worn on her left side. Her golden hair is singed and shortened. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

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: A child with a great deal of writing talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered writing. She came across an abandoned tomb where she found a relic that called out to her. After picking it up she was cursed by lycanthropy.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and to reunite with her absent mother

Ideals: Professionalism, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac, Impulsive. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: This woman wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her scythe with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized opal on her right hand. Her red hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a wide-brimmed hat. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady blue eyes.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes gnolls are coming to abduct people. She has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: She comes from a rich eastern family. Her parents were killed by gnolls in a raid when she was still a young child. The gnolls captured her, and made her a slave and general play-thing. She was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to her deformed appearance. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: A deep hatred of gnolls; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by gnolls, and she desires to right it

Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Enemies, Religious. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 270 gp.

Description: A middle-aged woman, she wears dull black sweaters, loose tan pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath her sweater she keeps a concealed shield, just in case, and is pretty ugly. She has styled her brass crest well, parting it to the right. Her gold eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: While she is on the job, she is grim and serious. She understands how dangerous the world is and the need to stay safe. She is a bit of a macho woman and will challenge people to random contests of strength and skill, and invite them to random hunting and fishing trip.

History: A child with a great deal of writing talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Surina 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 Surina. She has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: She will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact; and she is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Nature. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 500 sp. 1 Breastplate.

Description: This exceptionally lanky man wears silk and lounges about seductively. With a patchy golden beard and wild golden hair. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are amber.

Personality: He considers himself the protector of his home. He feels this is his duty and calling. A friendly and beautiful Half-Elf, he is rarely seen without a few beauties around his arms. Though a playboy in all rights, he is no lame duck.

History: Born in the north his family was never financially stable. He has had some formal painting training, and achieved minor success. He eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and to clean up the streets

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Guardian, Poor. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 60 gp. Coral (160 gp).