Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized violet coat. His moppish golden hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His eyes are hazel and catlike.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: He was born in the east, but his parents moved at a very young age to the south. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Ahvain grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Ahvain. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: He possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal; and expand his business

Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: This eastern woman is abnormally tall. She wears a tattered pair of loose grey pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. Her whole body is exceptionally muscular. Her long brown hair reaches down to her waist. Her fierce amber eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with her opinion, she thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, she can get violently argumentative. She enjoys reading and quiet.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Dwarves in the east were limited. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Opinionated, Logical. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Military. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 40 pp.

Description: This light-skinned female wears skinny pants and wears a brown and black robe with the hood down. She is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. She wears her silver hair up in a very large beehive style do. Her eyes are violet and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Torgga is a sociable creature first and foremost. She loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. She can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: She was raised in a desert tribe. She worked as a nervous Tanner and found it very stressful. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: She's attracted to the PC; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Ideals: Extrovert. Bonds: Religious, Nature, Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 70 gp.

Description: This tall, slender woman wears dull grey sweaters, loose pastel pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath her sweater she keeps a concealed trident, just in case. Her chestnut hair is wavy and long. Her green eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. Torgga enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Her psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. In her 10th year, her parents were killed by a gnolls raid, leaving Torgga alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. She got away from her former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge; and revenge

Ideals: Joker, Gifted. Flaws: Addict, Hedonist. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 250 gp. 1 Hourglass.