Description: This woman wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath her coat, and sports empty pouches on her belt. Her red hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. She has several tiny ruby earrings on each ear.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. 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: Gifted from a young age, Herleva studied abroad. Her parents enrolled her in a Paladin school at a young age so that she could practice her druidic talents. She left for the south, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent mother; and wants to raise her children well

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Sensitive. Bonds: Rich, Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. She is baby faced.

Personality: She hates goblins. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She enjoys reading and quiet.

History: Her arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She was granted arcane powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother; and many goblins want her driven away

Ideals: Logical, Gifted, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Enemies, Family. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 600 gp.

Description: This woman is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times, and sports empty pouches on her belt. Her red hair is still thick. Her fierce gray eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk she knows how to make people feel guilty. She cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one.

History: She was born several months after her mother was called into army service. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She now spends her time doing works of charity.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and she feels kind of lost in life

Ideals: Philantrophist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 6000 sp. Golden yellow topaz (900 gp). Blue sapphire (1000 gp).

Description: This woman is very fat, and is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing yellow cape and mantle trimmed with soft pastel waves gently in the breeze. She has wavy silver hair. She is baby faced.

Personality: She is a Layabout first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. She dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. Her biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: She comes from a rich eastern family. A gifted student she started as a Barber, but she got bored and became a Layabout. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 500 gp.