Description: Her right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise she appears quite healthy. She likes to wear yellow tank tops with green skirt. She wears her chestnut hair up in a very large beehive style do. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. As long as the job gets done she does not care how it got done.

History: Emma was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Being born in the west, 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 west 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 north. She has worked as a Blacksmith like her mother before her.

Motivation: Expand her business; and she wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Greedy. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 300 gp. Lapis lazuli (9 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (9 gp).

Description: The woman speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. She seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if she got out from a pool a few moments ago. She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her hair is chestnut, silky, and of moderate length. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her gray eyes.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. She dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. Her biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: Gifted from a young age, Avice studied abroad. Ostracized due to the psionic powers of her oldest brother, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Humans became a terror of the countryside. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the north.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted, Logical. Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 700 gp.

Description: With grey face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she wears a large hat to cast shadows over her face and wears ponchos to better hide her body. Her long black hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes orcs are coming to abduct people. She claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day she will do what she thinks is right.

History: She comes from a rich western family. She was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. She has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent mother; and an old rival family wants her found

Ideals: Justice. Bonds: Enemies, Rich, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 300 gp. Alexandrite (600 gp). Sardonyx (80 gp).

Description: 5'3" and muscular, this northern man wears skinny pants and wears a white and violet robe with the hood down. His long silver hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are gray.

Personality: He cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with his opinion, he thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, he can get violently argumentative. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his mother.

History: He got into the Shepherd business at a young age. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a daughter. He struck the Shepherd job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Ideals: Athletic, Opinionated, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Job, In love. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: Coral (150 gp). White opal (600 gp). Zircon (40 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.