Description: She is wearing a long, white, dusty cloak. She is portly but not overly obese. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady blue eyes.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. She loves teas. She is very sensitive about her face. To blow off anger she lifts weights and to control her otherwise explosive temper she works out a lot.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Brewer arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. She moved out south to avoid the crime she committed. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: Expand her business.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 600 gp. Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (150 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (500 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. He carries with him a set of pickaxes on his belt, each one with a ruby on the hilt. His long silver hair reaches down to his waist. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. He disdains his fellow southerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally.

Ideals: Fighting, Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic, Insane. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 600 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She wears professional attire. Her silver hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. Her brown unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. She has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. A freak accident while working with her Weaver mother left her crippled. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: She is terrified, and will act out of fear; and she feels threatened by others

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Disease, Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Darkwood Shield. 1 Masterwork Heavy wooden shield. 1 Buckler. 1 Chain shirt.

Description: This younger middle-aged woman wears a brown vest and prefers red and black shirts. Her boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down, and a wedding ring on her left hand. She keeps her auburn hair in a pixie cut. This blue eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She hates dire rats. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She never wears the same outfit twice, unless she absolutely has to.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. She went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: A deep hatred of dire rats; and she has a rivalry with the church that dominates her actions

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: In love, Enemies, Religious. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 700 gp. Chrysoprase (80 gp). Moonstone (80 gp). Lapis lazuli (13 gp). Rich purple corundum (900 gp).