Description: This younger middle-aged man wears dark leathers with embroidery, and a wedding ring on his left hand. His purple hair is thinning but still full. His eyes are likewise red. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. His martial abilities were realized during a raid on his village. Some 9 years later his spouse died after the birth of his daughter. Heartbroken, Barakas never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his daughter whom he trained as his mother had trained him before.

Motivation: To be a Spice Merchant again; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: In love, Job, Military. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 6000 cp.

Description: This woman is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Fisher, and sports empty pouches on her belt. Her silver hair is still thick. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Mastema embodies much of what other species detest in the Tieflings. She is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of her. She is by nature obliging.

History: Mastema was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her father was employed at, doing general labor. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her father gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her father, who blamed her for driving them apart. She has never given up on her music dream.

Motivation: Many dire rats want her driven away; and someone believes her a fraud

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Shy. Bonds: Poor, Enemies. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 1000 cp. Chalcedony (20 gp).

Description: He wears a red vest and prefers green and black shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. He sports a flattop hair cut. His gray eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He has always had a great fascination with Dwarven culture. He enjoys reading and quiet.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. Being born in the west, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the west for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way north. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Regain custody of his daughter; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Racist, Insane. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 50 gp. Freshwater pearl (14 gp).

Description: Her skin has the orange glow of too much sun. She tends to wear a large yellow jacket. She has moderate length golden hair. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. She never wears the same outfit twice, unless she absolutely has to.

History: Trained by her father for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. Her father was a soldier and died while she was still young. Myathethil was left her father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. She became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends.

Ideals: Persistence, Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Adventurer. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 240 gp. 1 Half-Plate.