Description: Her right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise she appears quite healthy. She wears a blue tunic with brown highlights, and long blue pants that bunch up around her shoes. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. She has gleaming, smiling brown eyes.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. 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-sister.

History: Elizabeth lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. When she was little, her rather wealthy family often ventured across the mountains to a summer home near a old dungeon. She would wander through that old dungeon and adventure through it for days. One day while adventuring a terrible storm took place and she was stranded inside. Her family spent the next few days looking for her, and could only assume she was dead when it came time to leave. The family never returned to the mountains due to the painful memories there. Elizabeth took refuge in the old dungeon and found the beat up mace and armor she uses now. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well; and expand her business

Ideals: Gifted, Logical. Bonds: Family, Nature, Job. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 500 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A middle-aged man, he wears bulky green painted plate armor, and is pretty ugly. His moppish golden hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. Richard 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: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. He was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. During his travels, Richard and his party rested in a cavern that was (unknown to them) infused with powerful dark magic. Upon awakening, Richard discovered the rest of his party dead, transformed into horrible, mindless undead versions of their former selves. Richard fled the cavern, stopping for breath at a small pool, and only then realizing his own horrible transformation.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well; and obtaining odd cultural human artifacts is his passion

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This woman wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized amber on her left hand. Her chestnut hair is knotted and matted. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: She is extraordinarily eccentric. She disdains her fellow northerners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. Yvonne was born on a far northern mountains where she grew up under the tutelage of her mother, an expert Priest. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and retire the richest woman in the north

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: He wears many layers of old clothing at all times, and he perpetually has his halberd ready. His chestnut hair is thinning but still full. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He loves being with his children and actually smiles when they are around. He would do anything for them. He dislikes his ex a great deal.

History: Born to a Banker, his father struggled to pay the bills. Being born in the east, 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 east 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 north. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent father; and to unite with his brother

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Poor, Family. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 300 gp.