Description: An older woman who tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with her rolled up shirt sleeves this gives her a very relaxed look, she is not a threatening figure. She has moderate length golden hair. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. She loves teas. She is very sensitive about her face. To blow off anger she lifts weights and to control her otherwise explosive temper she works out a lot.

History: Ranala lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Her mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: Expand her business.

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Job, Family, Rich. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 200 gp. Alexandrite (900 gp). Black pearl (900 gp). Deep blue spinel (900 gp). Chrysoprase (70 gp). 1 Masterwork studded leather. 1 Darkwood Shield. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: An older man who wears a violet tunic with white highlights, and long black pants that bunch up around his shoes, he is not a threatening figure. His hair is brown and curly. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He is a jovial happy person, but he is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. Aldous enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Born in the east to a Navigator, Aldous learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. While he appears to be a normal Half-Elf, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He's also a talented Barkeep, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Hedonist, Insane. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 5000 cp.

Description: She wears a tight fitting black shirt and pants. She has shaved her head bald. Her half smiles and green eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: She is quiet and unassuming. She ignores others and carries on with her job unassumingly. She is used to getting what she wants. In part because she is a meticulous planner.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Ploughman hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Ploughman for the past few years.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Ideals: Professionalism, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Poor. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 1900 sp.

Description: This fat northern woman has a bulbous nose and wears a blue shirt with thin grey vertical stripes and yellow pants. Her skin is also unnaturally pale. Her hair is white and curly. Her hazel eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She speaks before she thinks and is too direct. She uses her nature as a weapon; she likes to lead opponents to think her in distress.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. She was an apprentice working in her father's forge. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and she has money and likes to spend it

Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive, Secretive. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 600 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Standing 3'1", this woman wears a tattered pair of loose blue pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. Her black hair is smooth and relatively long. Her amber eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: Prone to second guessing herself, she comes off as nervous. She is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories she has discovered

History: She was born at the edge of vast island. Through the years after Tippletoe was born, her father became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the east. Tippletoe's father didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. After a long history of fighting, Tippletoe and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Nature. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 60 gp.