Description: Standing 5'2", this woman is typically in her Beggar uniform. Her white hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. Her eyes are a pleasant amber.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. She has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: Melissa was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her mother was employed at, doing general labor. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic, Ugly. Bonds: Job, Poor. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 100 gp. Deep blue spinel (1500 gp). 1 Full Plate. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Full Plate.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, she prefers to wear black clothing when she does not wear armor. Her white hair is singed and shortened. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She likes to make people angry or surprised. She loves teas. She is very sensitive about her face. To blow off anger she lifts weights and to control her otherwise explosive temper she works out a lot.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when drow swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Fletcher hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions; and she's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 300 gp. Rhodochrosite (13 gp). Chalcedony (60 gp). Banded agate (13 gp). Blue sapphire (1400 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is an average looking northern female in her early mid-life. She wears a blue tunic with violet highlights, and long blue pants that bunch up around her shoes. She wears a broad hat to cover her moderate length golden hair. Her amber eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: Cocky and sure of herself, she believes she is the best Fisher born in the past three hundred years. She is harsh and unforgiving.

History: Born in the north to a Fisher, Katherine learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. She worked as a nervous Fisher and found it very stressful. She has became unsatisfied with her lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: Human compassion; and expand her business

Flaws: Antagonistic, Racist. Bonds: Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 800 gp. Sard (20 gp). Silver pearl (40 gp). Chrysoberyl (40 gp). Onyx (20 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized brown coat. He has shaved his head bald. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady violet eyes.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes brigands are coming to abduct people. He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Mason arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: Revenge; and several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 6000 sp.