Description: A 4'10" southern woman, she does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. She sports a flattop hair cut. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Volen will drive conversation. As long as the job gets done she does not care how it got done.

History: Her mother raised her in a mountain cabin. Her father took her hunting and taught her how to get in the mind of other creatures. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion; and marry her sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Extrovert, Professionalism, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Nature, Family. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 160 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She wears yellow painted combat armor at almost all times. She keeps her golden hair in a pixie cut. Her skin is flawless and her amber eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: She is a sleazy, sleazy gal. She has no qualms about using her powers of suggestion to get people to do what she wants. 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: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Carter arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. She helped her father out around the business and became quite the natural. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: To be a Shipwright again.

Ideals: Athletic. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Rich. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 160 gp.

Description: She is in excellent shape and wears well tailored gowns and hats with beautiful decoration. She is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. She has done her best to style her golden hair to look like a famous performer. Her eyes are likewise gray. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. 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. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: She is greedy; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Sensitive, Shy. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 600 sp. 4 Smokesticks.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, she wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally she sports a black coat. She wears a small hat to hide her balding. Her eyes are likewise violet.

Personality: She considers herself a woman of culture and sophistication. She likes a good challenge to her wits. She is very protective of her business, her home, and her spouse. She is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: She was born in the west, but her parents moved at a very young age to the south. In her youth she was part of a gang. She got caught, but did not rat out her comrades and served her time in prison. She left for the west, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: She doesn't get along with people that don't share her tastes.

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record, Immigrant. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 110 gp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his club with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. He wears his red hair up in a very large beehive style do. His blue eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He is a man who does what he needs to. He will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. He is a bit of a macho man and will challenge people to random contests of strength and skill, and invite them to random hunting and fishing trip.

History: Born in the west to a Glassblower, Fallond learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. He was a friend to animals and a trickster. In his defense of animals however he would do severe harm to people. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to drow demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and he possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Criminal record, Nature, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 40 gp. Red spinel (160 gp).

Description: A man of a pale complexion, he wears blue painted combat armor at almost all times. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy blonde hair. He has amber eyes.

Personality: He is fixated on the number 74. He counts his steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. He seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. He is a thrill seeker, he laughs at people and throws down challenges. He is highly competitive and combative.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk.

Flaws: Insane, Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Mentor. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 230 gp. Star rose quartz (40 gp). Obsidian (16 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy white fur. She wears skinny pants and wears a brown and white robe with the hood down. She has a hunchback. She wears a deerstalker hat to cover her moderate length white fur. She has several tiny ruby earrings on each ear.

Personality: She is quite rude, and likes to deride her opponents skill and shout insults at them. Animals are drawn to her, and she is able to talk to them.

History: She was born at the edge of vast mountains. She always admired arcane-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and she's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Nature. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 130 gp.

Description: She dresses well, wearing green shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time. She is physically well-built. Her hair is black and curly. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: She is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. She plays an instrument quite well.

History: Sorath was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Her father was a mechanic, and taught her how to fix just about anything. She has achieved small success as a Priest.

Motivation: Expand her business; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Artistic, Persistence. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 50 gp.

Description: She wears dark leathers with embroidery. She has relatively light skin and is very physically imposing due to her abundance of muscles. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: Prone to second guessing herself, she comes off as nervous. She also has developed a complete distrust of the Apothecary profession.

History: Panana was raised in a hard working conservative environment. She worked as a nervous Bellfounder and found it very stressful. She then took over the family business and is one of the better Bellfounder for hire.

Motivation: To be a Apothecary again; and she wants to get laid

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 60 gp. Red-brown spinel (70 gp).