Description: A woman with a warm, jovial air about her, she wears a large hat to cast shadows over her face and wears ponchos to better hide her body. She wears a broad hat to hide her balding. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. More though she will beg to come along on any journeys. She will attempt to stowaway on any ship she can in the hopes that it will get her further away.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Beatrice was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. Her father took her hunting and taught her how to get in the mind of other creatures. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Barber.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and sabotage a competitor

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Slave, Mentor, Nature. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 3000 sp. Jet (60 gp). Deep blue spinel (1600 gp). Eye agate (4 gp). Deep blue spinel (1600 gp).

Description: She is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. She cuts an attractive figure and her suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. With bright blonde hair. Her half smiles and brown eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: Avice hails from a village terrorized by brigands. Like her mother and her sister before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Scribe. She's also a talented Miner, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: Expand her business; and sabotage a competitor

Bonds: Attractive, Job, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 100 gp. 3 Thunderstones.

Description: He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized brown coat. He carries with him a set of scimitars, each one with a amber on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. His blonde hair is heavily combed to the left. His eyes are likewise brown. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He misses his glory days as an athlete. He does not mind his job, but it is boring in comparison. He refers to his adoptive mother for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: John lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. His mother disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his mother, he was betrayed dozens of times. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his sons to still be retired.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: This woman is very fat, and wears violet painted combat armor at almost all times. Her white hair is knotted and matted. Her blue eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She is business-like. She takes instructions and follows them to the letter. She will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: To end her boredom; and retire the richest woman in the north

Ideals: Professionalism, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 40000 cp. Red-brown spinel (70 gp). Rose (50 gp). Black pearl (500 gp). Aquamarine (500 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.