Description: This late middle aged woman is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured and is in decent physical shape. She keeps her blonde hair in a pixie cut. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: Quiet and reserved she prefers to listen than to talk. She will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. She is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: Born in the west to a Bookbinder, Ida learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. She was an apprentice working in her mother's forge. She has never given up on her writing dream.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Joker, Artistic, Logical. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 500 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. She has a dull look in her blue eyes.

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 has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. 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: She will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact; and a rival would like her out of the picture

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic, Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 3000 sp. Malachite (5 gp). Rhodochrosite (5 gp). Hematite (5 gp).

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He usually wears his yellow robe and has his longsword always slung over his shoulder. His long silver hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He fancies himself a trickster and likes to rely on his wits to carry the day. He cares for his older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. He cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist he will grow angry at them.

History: Born in the north his family was never financially stable. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insomniac, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Family. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 10 pp. Zircon (80 gp). Fire opal (1100 gp). Chrysoberyl (150 gp). Aquamarine (200 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his morningstar with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. His golden hair is greasy and uncared for. His eyes are violet.

Personality: He is happy with his job as a Guard. He turns his eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. He disdains his fellow northerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. His parents divorced when he was young, and his father gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his father, who blamed him for driving them apart. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Guard for the past few years.

Motivation: Expand his business.

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Guard

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

Possessions: 500 gp. 1 Banded mail.