Description: She dresses like a well dressed Bricklayer does. Her auburn hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a deerstalker hat. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating she would invite many more into her home than her spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. She is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Humans.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Bricklayer. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Bricklayer for the past few years.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Philantrophist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Job, Attractive. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep grey leather and dull white iron scale mail. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. When she's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, she's doing singing.

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. 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: She is greedy; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Sensitive. Bonds: Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 700 gp. Banded agate (13 gp). Jade (50 gp). Violet garnet (900 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is in excellent shape and wears a pastel cloak and cross-gartered tan stockings. His tied-back hair is red. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. He spends most of his days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There he gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: He was born in the north. His mother took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. Lacking all sense, he decided to go on an adventure. He picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Adventurer, Immigrant, Nature. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 800 gp.

Description: This man prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs, and sports empty pouches on his belt. He has styled his auburn hair well, parting it to the right. His amber eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. Geoffrey is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his brothers into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: Trained by his father for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. Being born in the west, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the west for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way south. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature trident.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and obtaining odd cultural human artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Persistence. Bonds: Rich, Family, Military, Adventurer. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 400 gp.