Description: She is in excellent shape and is dressed in an above average manner. She wears her black hair up in a very large beehive style do. She has several tiny emerald earrings on each ear.

Personality: Matilda wants to be seen as a stoic, levelheaded, noble Paladin, so she tries to act the part. She does a good job, for the most part... She is cautious and jumpy. She reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: She comes from a rich northern family. Her mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: She feels threatened by others; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Disciplined. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: She dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over her head. She has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. Her tied-back hair is white. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. Energy wise she seems alert and responsive.

History: Her martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She was granted martial powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the east; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Professionalism, Gifted, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She wears well tailored gowns and hats with beautiful decoration. She is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. She has done her best to style her red hair to look like a famous performer. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She hates Humans with a passion. As such she is filled with self loathing. 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 studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. Being born in the north, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the north for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way south. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: Regain custody of her son.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Rich, Family, Religious. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 5000 sp. Chalcedony (80 gp).

Description: She wears a black tunic with grey highlights, and long violet pants that bunch up around her shoes. She is physically well-built. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She is not truly malevolent, but she is obsessed with writing. She constantly tries to fill her life with writing. Her temper goes off on the smallest of things. She tends to lash out at those around her.

History: She was born in the north, but her parents moved at a very young age to the south. She was an adventurer many years ago and she formed a blood bond with her Human companion (her 'brother'). She now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge; and she desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 4000 sp. Malachite (10 gp). Tourmaline (100 gp). Alexandrite (1400 gp).