Description: This fat northern woman has a bulbous nose and is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing grey cape and mantle trimmed with soft white waves gently in the breeze. Her skin is also unnaturally pale. Her golden hair is matted, messy, and big. 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 quiet and unassuming. She ignores others and carries on with her job unassumingly. She will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. She was one of the best in her class, and was picked up by her current employer. She quickly showed her capability and was soon promoted to a head role. She struck the Barber job and began her own company from there.

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

Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac, Impulsive. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 700 sp. Violet garnet (300 gp).

Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she prefers to wear flannel. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. Her ears are large.

Personality: She has schizophrenia that causes her to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. She is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: Ilanis hails from a village terrorized by illithids. She worked as a nervous Bricklayer and found it very stressful. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: She wants revenge against illithids.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Enemies, Job. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy black stubble. She wears a black cloak and cross-gartered white stockings. She has a hunchback. Her black hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines hazel.

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. 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 5 years old her parents immigrated from the north. Her mother was very strict, and drilled into her lessons on being the perfect lady. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: She doesn't get along with people that don't share her tastes; and her religion dominates her actions

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

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 15000 cp.

Description: She is a mite stocky and wears silk and lounges about seductively. Her blonde hair is still thick. Her eyes are green and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. She is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with her big mouthed big gutted partner. Her partner is her best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. She has all her life been fascinated with music.

History: Her psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Her father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her father was legitimate. She was granted psionic powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: Meet up once more with her childhood friend; and her religion dominates her actions

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Religious. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: Standing 4'4", this man wears brown trousers with grey and pastel striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. He wears a top hat to cover his moderate length auburn hair. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his gray eyes.

Personality: Deceptive and manipulative this northern guy figured out how to best use his charms to convince people to do what he wants. He is always in debt, since he spends his money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: He was born into a rich family. Being born in the north, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the north for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way east. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Dilettante they were divorced and he won custody of their son. He worked as a Engraver, and he later adopted a second son.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and to unite with his sister

Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Family, Slave. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 200 sp. Rose (40 gp).

Description: A pudgy man standing about 5'3" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. He sports a flattop fur cut. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He acts crazy and hedonistic. He plays an instrument quite well.

History: A child with a great deal of singing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. He moved out south to avoid the crime he committed. He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Hedonist, Addict. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 1000 cp. 1 Antitoxin.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. His purple hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. He has black eyes and a green hat with a red feather.

Personality: This man loves poetry and to teach people poetry more than just about anything. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

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 died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Fenriz 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 Fenriz. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: To pay off his debts; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Ideals: Artistic, Optimist, Gifted. Bonds: Immigrant, Criminal record, Debt. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He very much looks the part of a Cook. He has done his best to style his white hair to look like a famous performer. He has several tiny ruby earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: Gifted from a young age, Ulfgar studied abroad. He sought a place where he would be rewarded solely on the merits of his skills. This search led him directly into Cook work with an outfit from a few towns over. Cook work suited him well, and with each successful project, he earned more gold and more respect from his peers. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 90 gp. Chrysoberyl (60 gp). Pink pearl (60 gp).

Description: This northern woman is abnormally tall. She sports brown clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. Her whole body is exceptionally muscular. Her gray fur is braided into rings. Her yellow eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. She never wears the same outfit twice, unless she absolutely has to.

History: Two Llamas was raised in a hard working conservative environment. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and balancing her hectic life and new ruler responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Secretive, Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: Just what you see.