Description: This woman wears silk and lounges about seductively. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized opal on her left hand. Her hair is red and curly. Her eyes are gray and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help her friends. She considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. She also has developed a complete distrust of the Performer profession.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Butcher arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. 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 brigands attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Melissa fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Optimist, Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Job. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 400 gp. Red spinel (80 gp). Silver pearl (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is of a modest build and height, but she carries herself more imposing than she is. She is well dressed, constantly wearing a grey suit, white shirt, and blue tie. Her long golden hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: Oriel is depressed about a lot of things. She tends to be a nihilist. She disdains her fellow northerners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: She was raised in a plains tribe. She made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: She will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact; and she is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions

Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Immigrant, Nature, Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 40 pp. Moss agate (14 gp). Peridot (20 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is an average looking eastern male in his early mid-life. He is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. His brown hair is singed and shortened. He has brown eyes and a yellow hat with a black feather.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Theodoric will drive conversation. He is an amazing painter.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Humans in the east were limited. He was granted psionic powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: To clean up the streets; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Ideals: Extrovert, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Slave, Immigrant. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: This woman is renowned for her bright tan dresses and hats, and sports empty pouches on her belt. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. She has gray eyes.

Personality: She is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. 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 the only child of a wealthy merchant. A few years later when the east was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Military, Immigrant. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 4000 sp. Rhodochrosite (7 gp). Chrysoberyl (130 gp).