Populating the Fantasy Setting: NPCs for the town

I have spent a lot of time thinking about, and working on the starship level of the dungeon, but since getting the new Manga brushes from Frenden, I have been thinking more about the look of the adventure. The mining town can provide lots of opportunities for character interaction, provided there are lots of interesting people for them to encounter.

Two groups of concern for the players are the mercenary guards hired by the mining companies. They are a mixed group of hardened bastards that will likely not get along well with adventurers.  The other armed group are the guards affiliated with the church. They are a more organized group, and although they serve in large part as jailers for the church prison mine, they also maintain what little sense of order can be found in the settlement.  The two groups often clash, and the results are usually bloody.

The three NPCs I have sketched are a brothel worker, a street urchin/ magic user and a ranger who is exploring the source of spreading  devastation on the environment in the area.

-Aaron