Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she wears suspenders and brown workpants. Her shirt is yellow, and she wears a heavy brown leather apron most of the time. She has wavy black hair. She has brown eyes and a brown hat with a yellow feather.

Personality: She has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. She is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with her big mouthed big gutted partner. Her partner is her best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her dancing with anyone who is interested.

History: She was raised by priests from a young age. She was an adventurer many years ago and she formed a blood bond with her Human companion (her 'brother'). She became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother; and marry her brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Family, Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 600 gp. Obsidian (15 gp). Zircon (50 gp).

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized grey coat. His head has been shaved. His eyes are likewise green.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. To his fellows he is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 13 years.

Motivation: Revenge; and many orcs want him driven away

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Enemies, Poor. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: The light-skinned man stands 5'2" and is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. He keeps his long white hair kept up in a rat tail. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are blue.

Personality: He snorts whenever he laughs or is feeling confident. He disdains his fellow westerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: He got into the Tanner business at a young age. In his 16th year, his parents were killed by a giants raid, leaving Frederick alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and sabotage a competitor

Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 3000 sp.

Description: This tall, slender man wears green trousers with pastel and white striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. His hair is short and brown. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: Geoffrey wants to be seen as a stoic, levelheaded, noble Paladin, so he tries to act the part. He does a good job, for the most part... He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: His psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. Ostracized due to the psionic powers of his oldest brother, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Humans became a terror of the countryside. He has achieved small success as a Ploughman.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Disciplined, Entrepeneur, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 90 pp.