Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. She wears an entirely grey suit with black socks and a vest with buckled shoes. Her brown hair is knotted and matted. This blue eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. She also has developed a complete distrust of the Bookbinder profession.

History: Jacoba lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Her father worked until she suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. She had to support her now crippled father and took her father's old job. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister; and her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 800 gp. Chrysoberyl (60 gp). Star ruby (1000 gp). Sardonyx (80 gp).

Description: She is a pot bellied western woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally she sports a grey coat. She has done her best to style her black hair to look like a famous performer. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: Ida speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. She is clearly well-traveled and educated. She has a cruel streak; something she gained from her previous mentor. She harbors resentment against her former mentor.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Ida was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother 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. After a long history of fighting, Ida and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: She feels the way she acts is they only way to get by in the world; and she doesn't get along with people that don't share her tastes

Ideals: Athletic, Impeccable. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 6000 sp.

Description: This tall, slender woman wears a fancy black dress. She has styled her chestnut hair well, parting it to the right. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She is not truly malevolent, but she is obsessed with poetry. She constantly tries to fill her life with poetry. She lacks moral complications. She does what she is told to by employers but not much else. She spends her money on whatever she fancies at the time.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the east. A few years later when the south was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. With wild white hair. Her eyes are gray and catlike.

Personality: She is cool and collected. She likes to make quips and puns whenever she does anything. She also makes a point to compliment her superiors and flatter them. She dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. Her biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: Alice was born with her father's beautiful face. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother 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. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Disciplined, Logical. Bonds: Attractive, Poor. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 1000 sp.