Description: His right side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). He has a long golden beard with little hanging trinkets. His gray eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He hates dire rats. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He loves being with his children and actually smiles when they are around. He would do anything for them. He dislikes his ex a great deal.

History: A powerful brothel owner made him what he is. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Courier they were divorced and he won custody of their daughter. He worked as a Glassblower, and he later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: Regain custody of his daughter; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Family, Mentor, Religious. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 60 gp. Onyx (50 gp).

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She wears a large hat to cast shadows over her face and wears ponchos to better hide her body. Her auburn hair is lengthy. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Rose will drive conversation. She is obsessed with her god.

History: She was born in a small desert village. She made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. She is searching for what she claims is her rightful reward.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Human artifacts is her passion; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Extrovert. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 240 gp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: She is an average looking western female in her early mid-life. She wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with tan lining and desert motifs. Her head has been shaved. She has several tiny ruby earrings on each ear.

Personality: She is extraordinarily eccentric. She is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes her no end of embarrassment.

History: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. While she appears to be a normal Gnome, 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 is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Forgetful. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 120 gp. An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (60 gp).

Description: She stands about 5'3" and tends to wear a large grey jacket. Her right leg appears badly burned and disfigured. Her chestnut hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a deerstalker hat. Her skin is flawless and her amber eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: She is intelligent and cunning, but she will too often allow her rage to get the better of her. She will lose her cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. She is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. She haggles over everything, upselling her goods and buying cheap. She is persistent in everything.

History: When she was but 3 years old her parents immigrated from the west. She always admired psionic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. After a long history of fighting, Maynild and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the west.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 360 gp.