Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she wears dark leathers with embroidery. She keeps her chestnut hair in a flapper bob. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady green eyes.

Personality: She is a Merchant first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage son.

History: A child with a great deal of painting talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. Her parents enrolled her in a Paladin school at a young age so that she could practice her necromantic talents. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion; and her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is a physically imposing dark-skinned woman. She very much looks the part of a Painter. Her blonde hair has been sun bleached extensively. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with her opinion, she thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, she can get violently argumentative. She uses divination through singing.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. She was an apprentice working in her mother's forge. Being a Painter kept her interest for a while, but then she became depressed and bored. So she turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: She possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal.

Ideals: Opinionated, Gifted. Bonds: Job, Military, Criminal record. Occupation: Painter

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

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He wears long strands of ruby and short grey dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths, and carries greataxes. His black hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. His violet eyes peer out from beneath his broad grey hat.

Personality: He is irritable and easily angered. He is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use his stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. He takes great joy in being the best Gardener in town.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Job, Religious. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He stands about 5'6" and wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with tan lining and desert motifs. His right hand appears badly burned and disfigured. His golden hair is heavily combed to the right. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He goes out his way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one he won't accept into his heart. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: The child of northern immigrants he idolized his father. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He left for the north, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 2000 sp.