Description: This exceptionally lanky woman wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her crossbow with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. Her long chestnut hair reaches down to her waist. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. She always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove her into the Shepherd business.

History: Joan was raised in a hard working conservative environment. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Shepherd. She got away from her former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and an old rival family wants her found

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 100 gp. Banded agate (7 gp). Red garnet (140 gp). White pearl (140 gp). Sard (80 gp).

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She wears a worn and beaten armor. Her head has been shaved. Her blue eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. She does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. Like her mother and her sister before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Apothecary. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 4 years.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and balancing her hectic life and new apothecary responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Insomniac. Bonds: Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 700 gp. Iolite (50 gp). Obsidian (8 gp). Sardonyx (50 gp).

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. Her black hair is braided into rings. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She considers herself a woman of culture and sophistication. She likes a good challenge to her wits. She also has developed a complete distrust of the Engraver profession.

History: She was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family She found a children's book about a Human Paladin who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. She modeled her life after the story, seeing herself destined a hero. She now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: She wants to meet her childhood hero.

Ideals: Impeccable. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Criminal record, Adventurer. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Standing 5'5", this man wears a black vest and prefers green and blue shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. His red hair is knotted and matted. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, he has a hard time making friends. Flattery will make him almost putty in your hands.

History: A child with a great deal of writing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. Lewis abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk; and obtaining odd cultural human artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Selfish. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.