Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She wears silk and lounges about seductively. Her chestnut hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. She is baby faced.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, she has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. 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 daughter.

History: Ella hails from a village terrorized by orcs. She was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

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

Ideals: Disciplined. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Enemies, Rich. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 100 gp. Eye agate (10 gp).

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. She wears her golden hair up. She has green eyes.

Personality: She is irritable and easily angered. She is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use her stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. She is very protective of her business, her home, and her spouse. She is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. In her youth she was part of a gang. She got caught, but did not rat out her comrades and served her time in prison. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the west; and she is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 700 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She prefers to wear black pants and tee shirts. She has wavy blonde hair. She has several tiny opal earrings on each ear.

Personality: Geva is a sociable creature first and foremost. She loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. She can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. She refers to her adoptive mother for almost all things she is unsure about, which are numerous. She is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her mother always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. A gifted student she started as a Barrister, but she got bored and became a Stableman. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Stableman.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Stableman and was forced into it by her family; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Family, Job. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 10000 cp. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Full Plate.

Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she wears tattered old clothes. Her black hair is braided into rings. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep gray.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. She plays an instrument quite well.

History: She was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for her. It may also be what makes her so good at details. She helped her father out around the business and became quite the natural. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Body Guard for the past few years.

Motivation: To be a Laborer again; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 4000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.