Description: This fat northern woman has a bulbous nose and wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her rapier with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. Her skin is also unnaturally pale. She wears a deerstalker hat to hide her balding. She has green eyes and a pastel hat with a blue feather.

Personality: She is unhospitable to her core. Her small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. Animals are drawn to her, and she is able to talk to them.

History: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. She always admired necromantic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and she's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Gifted, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Insane. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Thunderstones. 1 Thunderstones.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. She wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized yellow coat. Her brown hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. Her hazel eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She is quiet and unassuming. She ignores others and carries on with her job unassumingly. She disdains her fellow westerners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Melissa grew up listening to her father's many stories. She worked as a nervous Apothecary and found it very stressful. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and further expansion of business

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: Alexandrite (1100 gp). Moonstone (70 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is a small woman, but exceptionally fit. She is dressed in an above average manner. She sports chestnut long hair. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. She never wears the same outfit twice, unless she absolutely has to.

History: Gifted from a young age, Anne studied abroad. Her psionic abilities were realized during a raid on her village. She eventually got the idea of being the protector of her homeland from reading books, and has made it her duty.

Motivation: To clean up the streets; and she feels threatened by others

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Guardian. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: This man is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down, and sports empty pouches on his belt. He wears a colorful flower in his blonde hair. His eyes are gray and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. Alex is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his brothers into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. He dropped out of school to support his sick father, and resented it. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Spice Merchant they were divorced and he won custody of their son. He worked as a Carpenter, and he later adopted a second son.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent father; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 100 gp.