Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). Her auburn hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. Her fierce green eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. She dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. Her biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by dire rats. Volen was horrified and prayed that her mother was alright. However, she heard that her mother had died fighting off the dire rats.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and she desires to right it; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Logical. Bonds: Enemies, Slave, Rich. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. Her Stetson hat is riddled with cuts and holes. Her eyes are a pleasant gray.

Personality: Her tongue was cut out and she uses sign language. She also has developed a complete distrust of the Shepherd profession.

History: Born in the north her family was never financially stable. She has had some formal dancing training, and achieved minor success. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 11 years.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and to be a shepherd again

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: She appears as an extremely gaunt Tiefling, and stands approximately 5'6". She wears a green vest and prefers blue and pastel shirts. Her boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down, and her gloved hand is found clutching a falchion. Her blue hair is unkempt and raggedy. Her silver eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: Her voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl she speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of her tone. She is accommodating to her spouse and as such limits her hospitality. She is brave and levelheaded in the face of danger and has proven herself a capable leader.

History: A child with a great deal of music talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Spy hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Cynical. Bonds: Poor, In love. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 120 gp. Amber (60 gp).

Description: Her skin has the orange glow of too much sun. She wears silk and lounges about seductively. She wears a colorful flower in her golden hair. Her gray eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She has a good heart but also a terrible temper. She will forgive often but not before yelling and berating someone for whatever they have done wrong. She has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a woman enough she will sell her own mother. Money is her most trusted friend.

History: Born in the north to a Fisher, Malquis learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. She was an apprentice working in her father's forge. She got away from her former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: Expand her business; and balancing her hectic life and new fisher responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Addict, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Job. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 1000 cp.