Description: She is a mite stocky and is generally shirtless and showing off her tattooed chest. Her hair is silver and curly. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She speaks before she thinks and is too direct. She loves being with her children and actually smiles when they are around. She would do anything for them. She dislikes her ex a great deal.

History: Ermina lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. 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 used her abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Blacksmith responsibilities is difficult; and to reunite with her absent mother

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Family, Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 300 gp. Red-brown spinel (140 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (15 gp). Banded agate (15 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman stands a little under 6'0" and is a bit bulky. She is very muscular particularly in the legs. She wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her dagger with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. Her silver hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a feathered hat. Her ears are large.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: A child with a great deal of music talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a daughter. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and retire the richest woman in the south

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Sensitive. Bonds: In love. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 3000 sp.

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what she was had she not made sure her armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit she wears a violet deerstalker hat and violet clothes. She has white hair. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: She is a sleazy, sleazy gal. She has no qualms about using her powers of suggestion to get people to do what she wants. She is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: Her druidic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Herleva was a troubled youth. She spent her days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent her evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Herleva decided she wanted neither the life of her mother nor that of the evil petty criminals she associated with. During her early adolescence, she took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: She is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and she loathes her own lifestyle

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Criminal record. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 500 gp. Amber (70 gp). Azurite (4 gp). Deep blue spinel (900 gp).

Description: This man is very fat, and is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. He has moderate length brown hair. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: Raymond speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. He is clearly well-traveled and educated. He is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Impeccable, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Immigrant. Occupation: Mortician

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

Possessions: 5000 sp.