Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with her rolled up shirt sleeves this gives her a very relaxed look. Her moppish chestnut hair is in a traditional bowl cut. Her eyes are gray and beady.

Personality: A grumpy gal she will invite people to lunch so she can critique them. Yet she still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. She is a ruthless business woman, a trait she acquired from her mother.

History: She got into the Mayor business at a young age. Her childhood dream was to be a Sculptor, but she was a colossal failure. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Mayor responsibilities is difficult; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Philantrophist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Shy. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1100 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (100 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her kukri with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. Her brown hair is still thick. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk she knows how to make people feel guilty. She has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. Being born in the south, 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 south 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 since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: She loathes her own lifestyle; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Flaws: Depressed, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Family. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His black hair is smooth and relatively long. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He is a man who does what he needs to. He will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. 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: He was raised in a plains tribe. His family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The mother sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. He saw this and took pride in his mother's willingness to do anything to win. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Marry his sister to traveling adventurers; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Criminal record, Nature, Family. Occupation: Guard

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

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: A stocky darker skinned woman, she usually wears her tan robe and has her glaive always slung over her shoulder. Her auburn hair is long and unkept. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. She is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. In her 16th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her mother impaled in their home, and her father beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: She is wracked by social anxiety; and she feels threatened by others

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Fearful. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 800 gp. Lapis lazuli (12 gp). Black pearl (1300 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.