Description: She is a pot bellied southern woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She wears a black deerstalker hat and black clothes. Her brown hair is lengthy. Her eyes are likewise hazel. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: She considers herself a woman of culture and sophistication. She likes a good challenge to her wits. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage daughter.

History: When she was but 3 years old her parents immigrated from the south. Because her mother participated in the massacre of their homeland, dire rats burned their ranch to the ground and forced them out. She was preparing to flee to the south, but the outbreak of war prevented her and her father from journeying south to reunite her family. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to dire rats demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Ideals: Athletic, Impeccable. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She tends to wear a large white jacket. Her silver hair is heavily combed to the left. She tend to wears goggles to shield her eyes.

Personality: This woman loves dancing and to teach people dancing more than just about anything. She is underhanded and not above using her wealth and body to get others to do her bidding.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She left for the south, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: She has a crush on the local Beggar; and she wants to get laid

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor, Immigrant, Has a crush. Occupation: Shepherd

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

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This malnourished man is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. His hair is cut close to his head. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He is cool and collected. He likes to make quips and puns whenever he does anything. He also makes a point to compliment his superiors and flatter them. Odo enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of philosophers.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Hedonist, Secretive. Bonds: Poor, Slave. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 600 gp. Sardonyx (60 gp).

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. His moppish white hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. He is ready at a moment's notice to give into his darker urges. He is a real pyromaniac and does not care who the fire hurts. He often ends up burning people alive in the fires he starts.

History: Trained by his mother for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. He became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help; and he is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions

Flaws: Shy, Insane. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Criminal record, Military. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 600 gp. White pearl (40 gp). Hematite (6 gp). Smoky quartz (30 gp). Freshwater pearl (6 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.