Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she wears a fancy blue dress. Her hair, while still mostly red, has prominent grey streaks. Her brown eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She is happy with her job as a Spice Merchant. She turns her eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. When she's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, she's doing writing.

History: She was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family Brilliant and gifted she never wanted to apply herself. Being a Spice Merchant 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: Expand her business; and seeks redemption

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 300 gp. Zircon (40 gp). Bloodstone (40 gp). Brown-green garnet (60 gp). White opal (900 gp).

Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she wears a fancy tan dress. She has slicked back golden hair. She has hazel eyes and a tan hat with a grey feather.

Personality: She's a bit of a prankster. She knows she is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. She receives visions of the future at random moments

History: Born to a Barkeep, her father struggled to pay the bills. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She has never given up on her painting dream.

Motivation: Revenge; and several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge

Ideals: Joker, Gifted, Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Enemies. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 800 gp. Chrysoberyl (80 gp). Jasper (50 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He prefers to wear flannel. His long chestnut hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His eyes are blue and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Heward hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his poetry career. He plays an instrument quite well.

History: Heward hails from a village terrorized by orcs. His mother took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by orcs. Heward was horrified and prayed that his father was alright. However, he heard that his father had died fighting off the orcs.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs; and he wants revenge against orcs

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic. Bonds: Enemies, Nature, Religious. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 4000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears professional attire. He carries with him a set of shields, each one with a opal on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. His red hair has been sun bleached extensively. His eyes are amber and catlike.

Personality: Quiet and reserved he prefers to listen than to talk. He will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage son.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. 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 north. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Rich. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 40000 cp.