Description: She wears a tan vest and prefers black and violet shirts. Her boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down, but does not cut a very imposing figure. She walks with a slouch but will stand straight to her full 4'10" when asserting herself. She wears a deerstalker hat to hide her balding. She has several tiny ruby earrings on each ear.

Personality: She goes out her way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one she won't accept into her heart. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and she is greedy

Ideals: Optimist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Nature. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 300 gp. Golden pearl (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This malnourished man wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). He sports a flattop hair cut. His amber eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He is a thrill seeker, he laughs at people and throws down challenges. He is highly competitive and combative.

History: His mother raised him in a mountain cabin. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Architect hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. He has worked as a Architect like his father before him.

Motivation: Expand his business; and balancing his hectic life and new architect responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Poor, Job, Adventurer, Nature. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. With a patchy auburn beard and wild auburn hair. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are violet.

Personality: He speaks before he thinks and is too direct. He is fiercely devoted to his father, and views his father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-brother.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. He always admired martial-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Stableman they were divorced and he won custody of their daughter. He worked as a Locksmith, and he later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Family, Mentor, Military. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 500 gp. Red-brown spinel (80 gp). Carnelian (80 gp). Deep green spinel (80 gp).

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His hair is golden, silky, and of moderate length. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. While he appears to be a normal Human, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: To protect his home; and he is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Logical. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Guardian. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 40 pp.