Description: She is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. She is physically well-built. Her white hair is well kept. Her fierce blue eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: Born in the east to a Stableman, Orla learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. Her mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well; and to be a locksmith again

Ideals: Opinionated. Bonds: Immigrant, Job, Rich, Family. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 50 gp.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He is dressed in a clean tan cloak covering his clean studded leather. He has shaved his head bald. He has gleaming, smiling blue eyes.

Personality: He is mildly Gnome supremacist, though he does not identify as such. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: He was born in the north, but his parents moved at a very young age to the west. His mother was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He has a crush on the local Miner; and he's attracted to the pc

Ideals: Joker, Persistence. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Immigrant, Has a crush. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 1400 sp. Golden yellow topaz (500 gp).

Description: This woman is wearing a long, brown, dusty cloak. She is muscular with a powerful set of arms. She has done her best to style her cinnamon fur to look like a famous performer. She has a dull look in her hazel 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 lacks restraint and is impulsive. She jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: Smoking was born in the south. At a young age she loved to build and create. She has had some formal painting training, and achieved minor success. She found several beat up suits of armor and, cannibalizing spare parts, she put together a working one.

Motivation: She wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and to prove her worth to the world

Ideals: Persistence, Artistic. Flaws: Impulsive, Greedy. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 60 gp. Tiger eye turquoise (16 gp).

Description: This late middle aged woman wears long strands of topaz and short tan dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths and is in decent physical shape. Her auburn hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. She is baby faced.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, she has a hard time making friends. As she has aged she has sought to do reparations for her actions as a youth. She is also making sure that her compatriots who never received punishment for their crimes are brought to justice.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. She inherited a moderately successful company from her mother. Under her leadership it has flourished, and using capital from her venture she effectively owns an entire region. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 130 gp.