Description: She is scrawny and has patchy brown stubble. She wears bulky blue painted plate armor. She has a hunchback. Her hair is brown and very short. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. She is an amazing painter.

History: She was born in the west, but her parents moved at a very young age to the east. Her mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her mother was legitimate. She left for the west, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Her religion dominates her actions; and she is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Immigrant, Religious. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 600 gp.

Description: A woman with a calm yet intense air about her, she prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. She carries her fan with her everywhere and carries herself as the perfect lady. Her brown hair is braided into rings. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are green.

Personality: She speaks before she thinks and is too direct. She can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her father. Her parents enrolled her in a Paladin school at a young age so that she could practice her divine talents. Recently a tribe of dire rats attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Ermina fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: She feels kind of lost in life.

Ideals: Gifted, Fighting. Flaws: Impulsive, Depressed. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 600 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This woman is very fat, and wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty green coat over it. Her black hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. Her brown eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She is irascible and easily irritated. She has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a woman enough she will sell her own mother. Money is her most trusted friend.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her mother always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. She worked as a nervous Crown-heir and found it very stressful. 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: Balancing her hectic life and new Crown-heir responsibilities is difficult.

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 400 gp. Rich purple corundum (900 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, she wears a pastel vest with golden trim over her white shirt. Her tan leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and her pastel boots flare out at the collars. Her moppish white hair is in a traditional bowl cut. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She resents people who mock her appearance or her, so she has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. She also is a firm believer in the womanly ideal.

History: She got into the Butcher business at a young age. She sought a place where she would be rewarded solely on the merits of her skills. This search led her directly into Butcher work with an outfit from a few towns over. Butcher work suited her well, and with each successful project, she earned more gold and more respect from her peers. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To be a Bookbinder again; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 40 pp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.