Description: This dark-skinned female wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with broad hat. She is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. She wears her blonde hair up in a very large beehive style do. Her eyes are brown and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She hates dire rats. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: Her mother raised her in a mountain cabin. She was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Bonds: Enemies, Adventurer, Nature, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 90 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp).

Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking northern young adult. She is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. Her brown hair is cut short. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She swings through moods quickly. One moment she is cool and collected, the next she is carried away by passions. 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, Bethrynna is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: She got into the Barkeep business at a young age. She was a friend to animals and a trickster. In her defense of animals however she would do severe harm to people. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Barkeep.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Fighting, Passionate, Justice. Bonds: Slave, Job, Nature. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This eastern woman wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with black lining and desert motifs. Her clothes are grease stained in places. Her golden hair is unkempt and raggedy. Her gray eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She swings through moods quickly. One moment she is cool and collected, the next she is carried away by passions. She is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: Born to a Fortune-teller, her mother struggled to pay the bills. She was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Meet up once more with her childhood friend; and she has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Passionate. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 5000 cp.

Description: She wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty grey coat over it. Her attire stands in sharp contrast to her sword, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a cross on it. She has no hair. She has several tiny emerald earrings on each ear.

Personality: This woman loves poetry and to teach people poetry more than just about anything. She has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: She comes from a rich eastern family. Her father was a mechanic, and taught her how to fix just about anything. She has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Artistic, Justice, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 200 gp. Smoky quartz (50 gp). Amber (70 gp). Eye agate (13 gp). 1 Half-Plate. 1 Darkwood Buckler.