Description: She has a missing right leg. She wears well tailored gowns and hats with beautiful decoration. She is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. Her brown hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a rose scrunchie. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She swings through moods quickly. One moment she is cool and collected, the next she is carried away by passions. Energy wise she seems alert and responsive.

History: Puyet hails from a village terrorized by dire rats. In her 18th year, her parents were killed by a dire rats raid, leaving Puyet alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to dire rats demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Many dire rats want her driven away.

Ideals: Passionate, Professionalism. Bonds: Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 180 gp. Tourmaline (80 gp). Bloodstone (80 gp).

Description: This woman is very fat, and wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. She is bald on top and has large auburn tufts of hair around her ears. Her eyes are likewise violet.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. She is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in her opinion.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. Cursed with vampirism at a very young age, Torbera has worked very hard to control her curse. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To be a Spice Merchant again; and revenge

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Ugly, Secretive, Disease. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 2000 sp. 4 Tanglefoot bags.

Description: This younger middle-aged man wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle, and a wedding ring on his right hand. He sports a flattop hair cut. He has gleaming, smiling brown eyes.

Personality: He is a jovial happy person, but he is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. He loves being with his children and actually smiles when they are around. He would do anything for them. He dislikes his ex a great deal.

History: Lamlis was born with his father's beautiful face. Being born in the south, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the south for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way west. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: In love, Family, Attractive. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She wears professional attire. Her golden hair is well kept. Her eyes are a pleasant violet.

Personality: She is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. She disdains her fellow southerners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: When she was but 3 years old her parents immigrated from the south. At some point she was captured by dire rats and was tortured. After several years of this she finally managed to escape. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud.

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Slave, Enemies. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 2800 sp. Black star sapphire (700 gp). Tourmaline (80 gp). Rich purple corundum (700 gp).

Description: She is a husky woman, who dresses like a well dressed Miner does. Her auburn hair is lengthy. Her skin is flawless and her amber eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: She is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. She dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. Her biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Miner arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Her childhood dream was to be a Sage, but she was a colossal failure. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Miner.

Motivation: She uses money and sex appeal to get what she needs; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 10 pp. Coral (160 gp).