Description: He is an average looking eastern male in his early mid-life. He wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. With bright red hair and a scraggly beard. His eyes are violet and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Ûshbaka wants to be seen as a stoic, levelheaded, noble Ranger, so he tries to act the part. He does a good job, for the most part... He uses divination through singing.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Gardener arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: A deep hatred of drow; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted. Bonds: Rich, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: She is a husky woman, who wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. She usually doesn't wear a shirt. She wears a colorful flower in her blue crest. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep gold.

Personality: A grumpy gal she will invite people to lunch so she can critique them. Yet she still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. She always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove her into the Miner business.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. A gifted student she started as a Knight, but she got bored and became a Miner. She then took over the family business and is one of the better Miner for hire.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and to be a knight again

Ideals: Philantrophist, Persistence. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. She tends to wear a large grey jacket. She has no hair. Her eyes are brown and catlike.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. She is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: She was born in the east, but her parents moved at a very young age to the west. 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: Many brigands want her driven away; and she feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Immigrant, Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 40 pp.

Description: She is wearing a long, white, dusty cloak, and she perpetually has her club ready. She has done her best to style her black hair to look like a famous performer. Her green eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. She claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day she will do what she thinks is right.

History: Heir to a fortune, her parents put a great deal of effort into curing her disease. A freak accident while working with her Baker mother left her crippled. She has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: To protect her home; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted, Justice. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Rich, Guardian. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 2 Thunderstones.

Description: A moderately attractive man, he wears a robe, a symbol of the sun god around his neck, and a longbow on his belt. He has done his best to style his brown fur to look like a famous performer. This copper eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He is quite rude, and likes to deride his opponents skill and shout insults at them. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: Trained by his mother for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. After a long history of fighting, Skirt and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic, Secretive. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 5000 sp. Jasper (70 gp). Fire opal (1400 gp).