Description: 5'5" and muscular, this northern woman dresses well, wearing yellow shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time. Her black hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help her friends. She considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. She refers to her adoptive mother for almost all things she is unsure about, which are numerous. She is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: Arara 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. By chance she met her sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Regain custody of her son; and an old rival family wants her found

Ideals: Athletic, Optimist. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Rich. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: She is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times, but does not cut a very imposing figure. She walks with a slouch but will stand straight to her full 3'2" when asserting herself. Her hair is long and black with streaks of blonde, and is pulled back with small white clips. Her blue eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. A friendly and beautiful Halfling, she is rarely seen without a few beauties around her arms. Though a playboy in all rights, she is no lame duck.

History: Shaena lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Her first spouse was a Carpenter, they had one son, but her spouse won total custody. Without her spouse to temper her she grew out of control. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Rich. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: Freshwater pearl (8 gp).

Description: This exceptionally lanky man wears long strands of aquamarine and short tan dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. He wears his brown hair down. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines brown.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, he has a hard time making friends. He does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for him. He lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: Glim hails from a village terrorized by gnolls. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Glim 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 Glim. Being a Fortune-teller 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: He is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and he has money and likes to spend it

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Enemies, Criminal record. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 80 pp.

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy brown stubble. She typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep brown leather and dull black iron scale mail. She has a hunchback. She is bald on top and has large brown tufts of hair around her ears. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Fallthra isn't afraid of most anything. She has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Dwarven unity. She is very protective of her business, her home, and her spouse. She is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: Fallthra was raised in a hard working conservative environment. She was taken from her home at a very young age. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Performer.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Job, Slave. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 240 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This younger middle-aged man is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright white and black, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems, and a wedding ring on his right hand. His auburn hair is long and unkept. His eyes are hazel and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. 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: Krakhorn was born in the south. At a young age he loved to build and create. His parents divorced when he was young, and his father gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his father, who blamed him for driving them apart. He has since married many spouses, only to have them die. He claims to not be responsible.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Logical, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, In love. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 290 gp.