Description: She is lean but muscular and is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. She sports a flattop hair cut. Her eyes are brown.

Personality: She is quiet and unassuming. She ignores others and carries on with her job unassumingly. She uses divination through singing.

History: Jacoba was born into a poor family. Growing up, she dreamt of becoming a Paladin, to bring honor to her family’s name. When she came of age, she applied for a position with her town's local guard, looking to work her way up via merit and eventually become a Paladin in service of a powerful lord somewhere. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She was granted arcane powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and expand her business

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 700 gp. Zircon (60 gp). White opal (700 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears just a grey suit, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 5'0" when asserting himself. His blonde hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: This man loves poetry and to teach people poetry more than just about anything. He is stubborn though. He always likes to keep a trick up his sleeve. He likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if he feels he even has a chance of losing.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. At a young age he wooed the heart of his future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. Being a Carpenter kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Criminal record, Poor, In love. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 800 gp. Jet (120 gp). Fire opal (1000 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, he prefers to wear flannel. He has golden hair. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: When he was but 7 years old his parents immigrated from the west. 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 has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and retire the richest man in the west

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 700 gp. Red spinel (100 gp). Violet garnet (800 gp). Red garnet (100 gp). Iolite (20 gp).

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He wears just a white suit. His hair is cut close to his head. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: Calm and collected, he is a well trained Butcher. He spends most of his days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There he gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. Being born in the west, 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 west 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 east. He has worked as a Butcher like his mother before him.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and sabotage a competitor

Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Rich, Family. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 3000 sp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.