Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. She wears a colorful flower in her auburn hair. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep brown.

Personality: She speaks before she thinks and is too direct. She has all her life been fascinated with singing.

History: Alice lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. She has had some formal singing training, and achieved minor success. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her sons to still be retired.

Motivation: Regain custody of her son.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Artistic. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 400 gp. Jade (160 gp).

Description: She is lean but muscular and wears just a blue suit. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady amber eyes.

Personality: Her tongue was cut out and she uses sign language. She is always in debt, since she spends her money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Eloise grew up listening to her mother's many stories. 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: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark.

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Impulsive. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 700 gp.

Description: A middle-aged woman, she wears a yellow cloak and cross-gartered brown stockings, and is pretty ugly. Her auburn hair is long and unkept. She has several tiny sapphire earrings on each ear.

Personality: She runs her personal life as if detached from it. She organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits she will get from it. She uses her nature as a weapon; she likes to lead opponents to think her in distress.

History: She was born in the north, but her parents moved at a very young age to the south. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Flaws: Ugly, Selfish, Secretive. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Beggar

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

Possessions: Smoky quartz (30 gp). Lapis lazuli (7 gp). Aquamarine (500 gp). Blue quartz (7 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her sai with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. She carries with her a set of sais on her belt, each one with a aquamarine on the hilt. She has golden hair. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She is irascible and easily irritated. She is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Heather was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. Recently a tribe of drow attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Heather fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Military, Mentor. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 400 gp.