Description: This younger middle-aged woman wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment, and a wedding ring on her left hand. She has a very tight haircut. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are brown.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. Her brief stint in the army gave her the idea she was invincible and that she is the toughest woman alive.

History: Trained by her father for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. Cursed with unlife at a very young age, Tawar has worked very hard to control her curse. Some 6 years later her spouse died after the birth of her son. Heartbroken, Tawar never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her son whom she trained as her father had trained her before.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the east; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Secretive, Disease. Bonds: In love, Military. Occupation: Sage

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 1100 sp.

Description: This exceptionally lanky woman wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her chestnut hair is heavily combed to the left. Her eyes are a pleasant amber.

Personality: She resents people who mock her appearance or her, so she has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. She is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Luthra 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 Luthra. She has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: She is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 90 gp. 1 Masterwork Light steel shield.

Description: A middle-aged man, he usually wears his tan robe and has his dagger always slung over his shoulder, and is pretty ugly. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. He has blue eyes and a tan hat with a white feather.

Personality: Prone to second guessing himself, he comes off as nervous. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: The child of northern immigrants he idolized his mother. Broce was born on a far northern plains where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Laborer. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Layabout they were divorced and he won custody of their son. He worked as a Laborer, and he later adopted a second son.

Motivation: To unite with his brother; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 3000 cp. Violet garnet (200 gp). Aquamarine (200 gp).

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what he was had he not made sure his armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit he is dressed in a clean blue cloak covering his clean studded leather. With bright golden hair and a scraggly beard. He is baby faced.

Personality: He is happy with his job as a Stylist. He turns his eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. He is very protective of his business, his home, and his spouse. He is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the east. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. Being a Stylist kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Bonds: Job, Criminal record, Poor, Enemies. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a sweet of some kind. He wears a grey vest and prefers pastel and green shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down, marred by sweets. He wears a wide-brimmed hat to cover his moderate length auburn hair. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: A grumpy guy he will invite people to lunch so he can critique them. Yet he still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. He disdains his fellow westerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: He was born in the west. Through the years after Balimaar was born, his mother became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the west. Balimaar's mother didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and he is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 130 gp.