Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he prefers to wear flannel. His white hair is cut short. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. His temper goes off on the smallest of things. He tends to lash out at those around him.

History: He is a Lamia in disguise. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Family, Job. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 5000 cp. Lapis lazuli (16 gp). 1 Breastplate.

Description: This woman is very fat, and sports tan clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. Her golden hair is lengthy. Her gray unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She hates dire rats. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She will do just about anything if she becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this she is easily convinced.

History: Lilli lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. In her 13th year, her parents were killed by a dire rats raid, leaving Lilli alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She's attracted to the PC; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and she desires to right it

Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Enemies, Has a crush, Family. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 200 sp.

Description: She is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright violet and brown, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. Her black hair is heavily combed to the right. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Ielenia is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: A powerful slaver made her what she is. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and she is greedy

Ideals: Philantrophist, Justice. Flaws: Insomniac, Depressed. Bonds: Rich, Mentor. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 380 gp. Smoky quartz (80 gp).

Description: An older woman who is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by her earthly robes., she is not a threatening figure. She keeps her chestnut hair in a flapper bob. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She is a sleazy, sleazy gal. She has no qualms about using her powers of suggestion to get people to do what she wants. Flattery will make her almost putty in your hands.

History: The child of western immigrants she idolized her mother. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered music. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 700 sp.