Description: This slender woman stands about 4'7". She wears just a black suit. Her silver hair is knotted and matted. Her ears are large.

Personality: She has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Shepherd who has hired her part-time. She plays an instrument quite well.

History: Joan hails from a village terrorized by orcs. When she was little, her rather wealthy family often ventured across the mountains to a summer home near a ruined castle. She would wander through that ruined castle and adventure through it for days. One day while adventuring a terrible storm took place and she was stranded inside. Her family spent the next few days looking for her, and could only assume she was dead when it came time to leave. The family never returned to the mountains due to the painful memories there. Joan took refuge in the ruined castle and found the beat up glaive and armor she uses now. She has gone from town to town working and never settling down anywhere, but has fallen for a local Stableman. She hasn't told them the truth, but wants to settle down with them.

Motivation: She's attracted to the PC.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Has a crush, Enemies, Nature. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 90 pp. Carnelian (80 gp). Black pearl (200 gp). Black pearl (200 gp).

Description: She is an average looking northern female in her early mid-life. She does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. Her red hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. This violet eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. She is obsessed with her god.

History: She was raised in a island tribe. Ostracized due to the arcane 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 bought a greataxe and has really upped her game hunting, due to her understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and she has a rivalry with the church that dominates her actions

Ideals: Justice, Gifted. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Religious, Nature. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 500 gp. 1 Masterwork Thieves’ tools. 1 Good lock. 1 Silver holy symbol.

Description: This exceptionally lanky man sports blue clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. He keeps his long golden hair kept up in a rat tail. He has several tiny aquamarine earrings on each ear.

Personality: While he is on the job, he is grim and serious. He understands how dangerous the world is and the need to stay safe. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. Being born in the south, 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 south 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 knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: To unite with his sister; and wants his loneliness to end

Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record, Family, Has a crush. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman is very fat, and wears a robe, a symbol of strength around her neck, and a hand crossbow on her belt. She wears her chestnut hair down. Her amber eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She is irritable and easily angered. She is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use her stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. She has a cruel streak; something she gained from her previous mentor. She harbors resentment against her former mentor.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out; and she's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Mentor, Poor. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 30000 cp. 1 Minor magic item.