Description: This light-skinned male wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. He is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. He has done his best to style his chestnut hair to look like a famous performer. His eyes are likewise amber. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He receives visions of the future at random moments

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. He worked as a nervous Shoemaker and found it very stressful. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Ideals: Professionalism, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Military, Job. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 100 gp. Obsidian (4 gp). Carnelian (40 gp). Star ruby (600 gp). Onyx (40 gp).

Description: 5'3" and muscular, this northern woman is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. Her green eyes peer out from beneath her Stetson grey hat.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. She is ready at a moment's notice to give into her darker urges. She is a real pyromaniac and does not care who the fire hurts. She often ends up burning people alive in the fires she starts.

History: Eloise lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Being born in the north, 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 north 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 west. She has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: She possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal; and to unite with her sister

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 200 gp. Rose (80 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1600 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.