Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with brown lining and desert motifs. Her moppish white hair is in a traditional bowl cut. This violet eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She is fixated on the number 7. She counts her steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. She seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. She moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep her interest for a month it is impressive.

History: She was born in the east, but her parents moved at a very young age to the north. Her father took her hunting and taught her how to get in the mind of other creatures. She bought a falchion and has really upped her game hunting, due to her understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge.

Flaws: Insane, Hedonist, PTSD. Bonds: Immigrant, Nature. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 200 sp.

Description: This younger middle-aged woman wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents, and a wedding ring on her right hand. She wears a colorful flower in her white hair. Her amber eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She is curt in most of her responses. She prefers to keep her word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. She is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. She haggles over everything, upselling her goods and buying cheap. She is persistent in everything.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. 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 her religion dominates her actions

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, In love, Religious. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 30 gp.

Description: He is a physically imposing dark-skinned man. He typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep tan leather and dull pastel iron scale mail. His hair is brown and curly. His brown eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

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. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. Ostracized due to the psionic powers of his oldest brother, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Gnomes became a terror of the countryside. 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: A deep hatred of brigands; and to end his boredom

Ideals: Persistence, Gifted. Flaws: Shy, Mundane. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 120 gp. Red spinel (70 gp).

Description: With yellow face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she wears a large hat to cast shadows over her face and wears ponchos to better hide her body. She has shaved her head bald. Her eyes are blue.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk she knows how to make people feel guilty. She cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist she will grow angry at them.

History: Her martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Kansif was born on a far western island where she grew up under the tutelage of her father, an expert Armorer. After a long history of fighting, Kansif and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: She has passion for adventuring and risk; and meet up once more with her childhood friend

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Depressed, Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: Just what you see.