Description: An older woman who wears a tattered pair of loose tan pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs, she is not a threatening figure. She sports a flattop hair cut. Her half smiles and green eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage son.

History: Her martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her sons to still be retired.

Motivation: Marry her brother to traveling adventurers.

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Enemies, Family. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 700 gp. Fiery yellow corundum (1600 gp). Alexandrite (1400 gp). Silver pearl (80 gp).

Description: This man wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized emerald on his right hand. His auburn hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His gray eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the north. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and he is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Rich, Religious. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 5000 sp. Rhodochrosite (4 gp). Blue quartz (4 gp). Freshwater pearl (4 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (500 gp).

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. He wears a Stetson hat to cover his moderate length white hair. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating he would invite many more into his home than his spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. He is fiercely devoted to his mother, and views his mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-sister.

History: He was born in the east. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He left for the east, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 600 gp. Emerald (1000 gp). Citrine (20 gp). Malachite (7 gp).

Description: This southern woman tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with her rolled up shirt sleeves this gives her a very relaxed look. Her clothes are grease stained in places. Her moppish blonde hair is in a traditional bowl cut. Her eyes are gray and catlike.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. She is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. She haggles over everything, upselling her goods and buying cheap. She is persistent in everything.

History: Oriel was born the youngest of three triplets. She was an adventurer many years ago and she formed a blood bond with her Human companion (her 'brother'). She has been saving her money to try and buy her brother's freedom.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and she desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Persistence, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 500 gp. Deep blue spinel (700 gp). Rhodochrosite (12 gp). Emerald (1000 gp). Obsidian (12 gp).