Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her bronze crest is lengthy and is close to two feet long. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are red.

Personality: She is cool and collected. She likes to make quips and puns whenever she does anything. She also makes a point to compliment her superiors and flatter them. She receives visions of the future at random moments

History: Farideh was raised in a hard working conservative environment. She helped her father out around the business and became quite the natural. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to dire rats demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and she desires to right it; and balancing her hectic life and new scribe responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Disciplined, Gifted. Bonds: Job, Enemies. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 47000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This fat western man has a bulbous nose and wears light armors faded through time and improper care. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His red hair is heavily combed to the left. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He is curt in most of his responses. He prefers to keep his word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west; and he will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 500 sp. Cloth of gold vestments (50 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (300 gp). A pair of blacksmith’s puzzle; each has a pair of interlocked iron designs that users try to take apart and put back together (100 gp). 1 Masterwork Thieves’ tools.

Description: A moderately attractive woman, she is dressed in an above average manner. She keeps her gold crest in a flapper bob. Her eyes are likewise gold. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: She is someone who is used to having a large amount of sex appeal. She also lacks a concept of privacy and shares just about everything. She passes on several rewards to people in need. She makes a point to leave places better than she found them.

History: She got into the Performer business at a young age. She worked as a nervous Performer and found it very stressful. She got away from her former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: She is wracked by social anxiety; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Addict, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Performer

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 270 gp. 1 Silver holy symbol.

Description: She is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured, but does not cut a very imposing figure. She walks with a slouch but will stand straight to her full 4'11" when asserting herself. Her auburn hair is wavy and long. Her eyes are amber and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. When she's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, she's doing music.

History: She got into the Ruler business at a young age. She helped her father out around the business and became quite the natural. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Philantrophist, Artistic, Optimist. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: Tourmaline (110 gp).

Description: He wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates his frame. He has dyed his greying black fur a little too much giving a sharp black color. His half smiles and yellow eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He speaks before he thinks and is too direct. He cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist he will grow angry at them.

History: Shifting was born with his father's beautiful face. In his 15th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his father impaled in their home, and his mother beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He now spends his time doing works of charity.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world; and he is wracked by social anxiety

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Impulsive, Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Poor. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 2000 cp.