Description: This woman likes to wear ponchos typically of a light white in addition to tight pants, and sports empty pouches on her belt. Her brown hair is singed and shortened. Her green eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the north. The occasional robbery is her preferred attention getting crime, but she mainly uses her means for meeting her own perverse desires.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Melissa was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. A gifted student she started as a Knight, but she got bored and became a Carter. She then took over the family business and is one of the better Carter for hire.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Criminal record, Mentor, Job. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 500 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. With a patchy black beard and wild black hair. He has gleaming, smiling blue eyes.

Personality: He is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. He is very protective of his business, his home, and his spouse. He is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Being born in the west, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the west for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way south. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and to unite with his brother

Flaws: Shy, Mundane. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record, Family, Slave. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 500 gp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (500 gp).

Description: This woman is very fat, and wears suspenders and red workpants. Her shirt is black, and she wears a heavy red leather apron most of the time. She is bald on top and has large chestnut tufts of hair around her ears. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She is a Unemployed first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. Her brief stint in the army gave her the idea she was invincible and that she is the toughest woman alive.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. Her parents enrolled her in a Paladin school at a young age so that she could practice her martial talents. She has became unsatisfied with her lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and balancing her hectic life and new unemployed responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Military, Adventurer. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 20000 cp. Silver pearl (50 gp). Golden yellow topaz (800 gp). Rock crystal (30 gp).

Description: A moderately attractive man, he is wearing a long, yellow cloak. His black hair is heavily combed to the left. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is someone who is used to having a large amount of sex appeal. He also lacks a concept of privacy and shares just about everything. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Locksmith. He tends to his Locksmith job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: To end his boredom; and expand his business

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Job. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 40000 cp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.