Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She wears tattered old clothes. Her head has been shaved. Her gray eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. She is a thrill seeker, she laughs at people and throws down challenges. She is highly competitive and combative.

History: Her father raised her in a mountain cabin. Eloise liked to wander the woods near her home when she was young, something she still likes to do at least once a week. She never liked modest clothing or shoes, so she would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and she developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her sons to still be retired.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and sabotage a competitor

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Nature, Family. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 800 gp. Solid gold idol (900 gp).

Description: This dark-skinned female wears dull grey sweaters, loose brown pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath her sweater she keeps a concealed scimitar, just in case. She is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. Her long auburn hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. She is baby faced.

Personality: Deceptive and manipulative this western gal figured out how to best use her charms to convince people to do what she wants. She is fiercely devoted to her father, and views her father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-sister.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Hugolina grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Hugolina. She has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: She possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal; and wants to raise her children well

Bonds: Attractive, Family, Slave, Criminal record. Occupation: Banker

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

Possessions: 700 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: He is lean but muscular and is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright brown and violet, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. He has no hair. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines blue.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He is harsh and unforgiving.

History: Patrick lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He used his abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and money/treasure

Ideals: Philantrophist, Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: With brown face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. Her auburn hair is well kept. Her green eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. She is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. She likes to tell stories.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her father. Her father took her hunting and taught her how to get in the mind of other creatures. By chance she met her sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Marry her sister to traveling adventurers; and obtaining odd cultural human artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Minor magic item.