Description: 5'2" and lanky with angular features, she is an attractive figure. She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her red hair is braided into rings. She has brown eyes and a tan hat with a grey feather.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. She is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the north; and she desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Joker. Flaws: Sensitive. Bonds: Attractive, Poor. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 300 gp. Moss agate (7 gp). Rock crystal (80 gp).

Description: A woman with a warm, jovial air about her, she tends to wear a large violet jacket. Her head has been shaved. She is baby faced.

Personality: She is quiet and unassuming. She ignores others and carries on with her job unassumingly. Her philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Susannah grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Susannah. As of late she has set up a hidden staging nest where she ambushes people she hires for escort.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by brigands, and she desires to right it

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Job, Criminal record, Enemies. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 20000 cp. Zircon (80 gp). Rock crystal (80 gp). Black opal (1500 gp). Banded agate (9 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She appears as an extremely gaunt Human, and stands approximately 5'3". She wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty brown coat over it, and her gloved hand is found clutching a scythe. Her golden hair, when down, is lengthy. She wears a mask on her face.

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 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: Her martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Katherine was born on a far northern plains where she grew up under the tutelage of her father, an expert Assassin. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Logical, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 800 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a paragon of his species. He is larger and stronger than most Humans. His skin is light but he possesses many green ritualistic tattoos. He wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. His red hair is heavily combed to the right. His gray eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

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. The war was a terrible time for him, and John does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: A child with a great deal of poetry talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. He has had some formal poetry training, and achieved minor success. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and he loathes his own lifestyle

Ideals: Persistence, Artistic. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.