Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. She prefers to wear black pants and tee shirts. Her tied-back hair is auburn. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: Here is a woman who knows she is the smartest in the room. She talks down to others constantly. Despite her manner, she is extremely passionate and proud of her job, and she prides herself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Gorga 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 Gorga. She would ruin relationships and cause injury. She was reprimanded several times before being given her current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: To prove her worth to the world; and she is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Job, Nature, Criminal record. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 1100 gp. Rhodochrosite (5 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears silk and lounges about seductively. She has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to her abundance of muscles. She has wavy blonde hair. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She is a very philanthropic person; she spends her free time working at various soup kitchens. Sarah enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her mother. Being born in the east, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the east for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way north. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her sons to still be retired.

Motivation: She's attracted to the PC; and to unite with her brother

Ideals: Philantrophist, Fighting. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Has a crush. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy golden stubble. She wears many layers of old clothing at all times. She has a hunchback. Her golden hair is cut short. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines gray.

Personality: She dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the north. She disdains her fellow northerners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Helgret was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. 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 has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

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

Ideals: Pacifist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Mentor. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 1000 gp.

Description: This fat southern man has a bulbous nose and is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His skin is also unnaturally pale. He has wavy red hair. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He goes out his way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one he won't accept into his heart. He is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: He is a Lycanthrope in disguise. Eberdeb was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Eberdeb decided he wanted neither the life of his father nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. He is searching for what he claims is his rightful reward.

Motivation: He is greedy; and he is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Military, Adventurer, Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: He has a missing left leg. He tends to wear a large tan jacket. His brown hair is long and unkept. His brown eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He likes to make people angry or surprised. He invented a lineage for himself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. 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 was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He is greedy; and an old rival family wants him found

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Rich, Family. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 9000 cp.