Description: This tall, slender woman dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over her head. Her red hair is long and unkept. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She does not care much for physical appearances, nor does she care much for other people. She does however care about what she wants and getting it. She claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day she will do what she thinks is right.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Mara grew up listening to her father's many stories. While she appears to be a normal Half-Elf, she's... not quite right. Perhaps she's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that she plain doesn't fit in. She has dedicated herself to building a better world.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Half-Orc artifacts is her passion; and she desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Server

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 160 gp.

Description: This man is tall and muscular. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His brass crest is still thick. His eyes are likewise gold. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: Azzakh was born with his mother's beautiful face. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Athletic, Opinionated. Flaws: Sensitive. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 100 sp. 1 Hourglass.

Description: This fat northern woman has a bulbous nose and is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. Her skin is also unnaturally pale. She has done her best to style her auburn hair to look like a famous performer. This hazel eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She is a Brewer first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. Xanaphia enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. When Xanaphia reached her early adolescence her Elf mother passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, she decided to travel. Her rounds led her into the Army with a few individuals who would become her life-long companions. She was granted divine powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and expand her business

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Job, Military. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Chain shirt.

Description: This eastern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright green and brown, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. His hair, while still mostly silver, has prominent grey streaks. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the east. He does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for him. He lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Ideals: Pacifist, Fighting, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Religious. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 600 sp.