Description: This late middle aged woman wears a violet tunic with green highlights, and long white pants that bunch up around her shoes and is in decent physical shape. She wears a deerstalker hat to hide her balding. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. She claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day she will do what she thinks is right.

History: Herleva hails from a village terrorized by orcs. Her mother was very strict, and drilled into her lessons on being the perfect lady. She has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: She feels the way she acts is they only way to get by in the world; and to pay off her debts

Ideals: Justice, Impeccable. Flaws: Terse. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Debt. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: German accent

Possessions: Tiger eye turquoise (16 gp). Chrysoprase (50 gp). Moonstone (50 gp). Black star sapphire (1000 gp).

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized black coat. His golden hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. His eyes are gray and beady.

Personality: He acts crazy and hedonistic. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: Manfred lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Being born in the north, 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 north 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 west. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Painter they were divorced and he won custody of their daughter. He worked as a Ploughman, and he later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: Brown-green garnet (60 gp). White pearl (60 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a worn and beaten armor. His silver hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His eyes are a pleasant hazel.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. He constantly seizes attention wherever he goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. He likes to think of himself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. Through the years after Geoffrey was born, his mother became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the east. Geoffrey's mother didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. After a long history of fighting, Geoffrey and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He would like to get married and retire; and he's attracted to the pc

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Mentor, Has a crush. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 100 gp. Blue quartz (12 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: With brown face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing brown cape and mantle trimmed with soft pastel waves gently in the breeze. Her silver hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She is a hateful person. She taunts others and blames them for her problems. She is fiercely devoted to her mother, and views her mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-brother.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her mother always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. Her mother disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her mother, she was betrayed dozens of times. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: Regain custody of her daughter.

Flaws: Insomniac, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Family, Religious. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 800 gp.