Description: She is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. She has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. Her hair is long and white with streaks of black, and is pulled back with small brown clips. Her violet eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: Joan hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her poetry career. She is very protective of her business, her home, and her spouse. She is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her father. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Humans in the north were limited. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and she has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day

Ideals: Artistic, Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Immigrant. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 600 gp. White pearl (130 gp). Moonstone (50 gp). Golden yellow topaz (800 gp). Sardonyx (50 gp).

Description: This malnourished man wears a white tunic with blue highlights, and long brown pants that bunch up around his shoes. His hair is chestnut and very short. His blue eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He likes to fabricate stories about his past exploits and how crazy he is, but in actuality he is rather bland. To his fellows he is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: His father raised him in a mountain cabin. He was a friend to animals and a trickster. In his defense of animals however he would do severe harm to people. Recently a tribe of drow attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Theodoric fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north; and someone believes him a fraud

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Poor, Enemies, Nature. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 700 gp. Moonstone (70 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates his frame. He has wavy silver hair. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his painting with anyone who is interested.

History: Frederick was raised in a hard working conservative environment. In his 17th year, his parents were killed by a brigands raid, leaving Frederick alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He tends to his Stableman job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Job, Family, Enemies. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 800 gp. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Chain shirt. 1 Full Plate.

Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she wears a fine chain shirt which she covers with white colored cloaks and clothing. Her white hair is thinning but still full. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She is unhospitable to her core. Her small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. She is a ruthless business woman, a trait she acquired from her father.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. Adelaide was born on a far eastern mountains where she grew up under the tutelage of her father, an expert Engraver. She hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic, Insomniac. Bonds: Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 500 gp.