Description: A 4'0" eastern woman, she wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). Her hair is short and chestnut. This brown eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She speaks before she thinks and is too direct. She is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. She likes to tell stories.

History: The child of a Gardener, who enjoyed hunting, Jarana was taken on many hunting expeditions. She was a friend to animals and a trickster. In her defense of animals however she would do severe harm to people. She now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and she desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Impulsive, Fearful. Bonds: Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Darkwood Buckler.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking southern young adult. He wears a tattered pair of loose green pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. He wears his blue crest down. His eyes are likewise red. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: This man loves painting and to teach people painting more than just about anything. He is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the south. Ostracized due to the divine powers of his oldest brother, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Dragonborns became a terror of the countryside. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Slave. Occupation: Server

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 80 gp.

Description: A woman with a warm, jovial air about her, she is wearing a long, tan, dusty cloak. She wears a deerstalker hat to hide her balding. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her hazel eyes.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: Shamil was born with her father's beautiful face. Aside from being a slave or a gladiator, there isn't much legitimate work for Gnomes in Shamil's homeland. Shamil decided to take the middle way and become a bodyguard. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by dire rats. Shamil was horrified and prayed that her mother was alright. However, she heard that her mother had died fighting off the dire rats.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and regain custody of her son

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: Rhodochrosite (6 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A moderately attractive woman, she wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with feathered hat. Her crest, while still mostly silver, has prominent grey streaks. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks her mind. 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, Burana is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Burana was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends; and retire the richest woman in the west

Ideals: Justice, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 80 gp.