Description: She dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over her head. She is portly but not overly obese. Her auburn hair is heavily combed to the left. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. She is an amazing painter.

History: Her martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. She was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. One night she noticed a nearby shooting star which she hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. She has done her darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: Human compassion; and she has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Gifted, Persistence. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 3000 sp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she prefers to wear black clothing when she does not wear armor. She has silver hair. Her amber unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She swings through moods quickly. One moment she is cool and collected, the next she is carried away by passions. She moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep her interest for a month it is impressive.

History: She was born at the edge of vast desert. Cursed with vampirism at a very young age, Joan has worked very hard to control her curse. Some 6 years later her spouse died after the birth of her daughter. Heartbroken, Joan never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her daughter whom she trained as her father had trained her before.

Motivation: She has passion for adventuring and risk; and she's looking for her big break

Ideals: Passionate. Flaws: Disease, Hedonist. Bonds: Nature, In love, Adventurer. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 90 pp. Eye agate (6 gp). Obsidian (6 gp).

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears a brown costume with the symbols of the four houses of cards on his torso. His black hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His eyes are hazel.

Personality: He exudes charisma. He is a tour de force of persuasion. He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother 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 has since married many spouses, only to have them die. He claims to not be responsible.

Motivation: Revenge; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by orcs, and he desires to right it

Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Poor, In love, Enemies. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 3000 sp. Freshwater pearl (16 gp). Smoky quartz (20 gp).

Description: She wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. She carries a battered hand crossbow and tarnished monstrous two handed axe as well. Her hair is brown and very short. She is baby faced.

Personality: A grumpy gal she will invite people to lunch so she can critique them. Yet she still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: Alice lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her sons to still be retired.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister; and an old rival family wants her found

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Family. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 100 gp.