Description: She wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with deerstalker hat. Her skin is fair and her fingers are delicate and long. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. Her eyes are green and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. 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 comes from a rich northern family. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her father gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her father, who blamed her for driving them apart. 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: She is greedy; and to reunite with her absent father

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Secretive, Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, Rich. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 2000 sp.

Description: She is a mite stocky and wears professional attire. She has wavy white hair. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. 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: She was born in the west, but her parents moved at a very young age to the north. Katherine was born on a far western desert where she grew up under the tutelage of her father, an expert Engraver. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the west; and doesn't want to be a engraver and was forced into it by her family

Ideals: Disciplined, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: A plain young-adult man, he wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. His red hair is braided into rings. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. A freak accident while working with his Fortune-teller mother left him crippled. He was granted arcane powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: He seems to be bored by most things.

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Mundane, Disease. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: This southern man wears tattered old clothes. His clothes are grease stained in places. He has moderate length blonde hair. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: Calm and collected, he is a well trained Herbalist. He invites people to come help in his community garden.

History: He was born in the south, but his parents moved at a very young age to the west. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Herbalist hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. He has achieved small success as a Herbalist.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 200 gp. Smoky quartz (80 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1300 gp).