Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she wears a large hat to cast shadows over her face and wears ponchos to better hide her body. Her silver hair is lengthy. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food she seems plenty friendly. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage son.

History: Elizabeth was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Through the years after Elizabeth was born, her father became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the south. Elizabeth's father didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and she desires to right it; and marry her sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 600 gp.

Description: She is a physically imposing dark-skinned woman. She is dressed in a clean white cloak covering her clean studded leather. Her hair is cut close to her head. Her eyes are likewise blue.

Personality: Griselda hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her writing career. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her writing with anyone who is interested.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. Her mother disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her mother, she was betrayed dozens of times. She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature halberd.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and an old rival family wants her found

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Family, Adventurer, Military. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 1000 sp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He wears brown robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally he wears more armor. He prefers to carry a shortbow, but if one is not available he will default to his hand crossbow. He has shaved his head bald. He has a dull look in his gray eyes.

Personality: Gerard hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his dancing career. He lacks moral complications. He does what he is told to by employers but not much else. He spends his money on whatever he fancies at the time.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Herbalist. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Herbalist for the past few years.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Job, Military, Criminal record. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 5000 sp. Iolite (40 gp). Brown-green garnet (160 gp).

Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. His long blonde hair reaches down to his waist. His ears are large.

Personality: He likes to make people angry or surprised. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: When he was but 7 years old his parents immigrated from the west. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He left for the west, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west; and his religion dominates his actions

Ideals: Athletic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Shy. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 400 gp.