Description: A woman with a warm, jovial air about her, she dresses like a well dressed Layabout does. She has orange fur. She has several tiny sapphire earrings on each ear.

Personality: She is a woman who does what she needs to. She will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. She does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for her. She lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. A gifted student she started as a Courier, but she got bored and became a Layabout. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Layabout.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Bonds: Job, Rich, Criminal record, Slave, Family. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 700 sp. Golden yellow topaz (500 gp).

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what he was had he not made sure his armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit he wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His auburn hair is smooth and relatively long. This blue eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

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 a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Dwarves.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. 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: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and gnomish compassion

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Persistence. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 200 sp.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She is wearing a long, brown cloak. Her fur is orange and very short. She has a dull look in her hazel eyes.

Personality: She is irascible and easily irritated. She works hard and plays hard.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her father always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. She always admired psionic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She has worked as a Servant like her father before her.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic, Hedonist. Bonds: Poor, Job, Military. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 140 gp. 1 Smokesticks.

Description: She is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants, and she perpetually has her lance ready. Her crest is gold and curly. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep red.

Personality: She is extraordinarily eccentric. She is fiercely devoted to her mother, and views her mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-sister.

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. Her mother was very strict, and drilled into her lessons on being the perfect lady. By chance she met her sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well; and to unite with her sister

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted, Impeccable. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 80 gp. Aquamarine (300 gp). Deep blue spinel (300 gp). 1 Half-Plate.