Description: She is a mite stocky and wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with red lining and desert motifs. Her hair is golden and very short. Her eyes are likewise amber. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She considers herself a woman of culture and sophistication. She likes a good challenge to her wits. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her painting with anyone who is interested.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. A freak accident while working with her Shoemaker father left her crippled. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Cartwright and was forced into it by her family; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister

Ideals: Impeccable, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. She wears bulky grey painted plate armor. She has dyed her greying auburn hair a little too much giving a sharp auburn color. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as she rather likes the sound of her voice. Her demeanor is somewhat feminine. 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: The child of southern immigrants she idolized her mother. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Optimist, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Slave. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 500 gp. Alexandrite (1400 gp).

Description: She is a paragon of her species. She is larger and stronger than most Humans. Her skin is dark but she possesses many tan ritualistic tattoos. She wears pastel painted combat armor at almost all times. Her hair is blonde and very short. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: Cocky and sure of herself, she believes she is the best Shepherd born in the past three hundred years. She has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: Her psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Shepherd responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Job, Mentor. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 100 pp.

Description: A woman of a pale complexion, she wears many layers of old clothing at all times. Her silver hair is braided into rings. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: Stoic and calm, she prefers to meditate than take action. She is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: She was born several months after her father was called into army service. Through the years after Avelina was born, her father became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the south. Avelina's father didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Military. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 100 gp. Black pearl (300 gp). 1 Minor magic item.