Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He wears well tailored suits and hats with beautiful decoration. He is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. With bright chestnut hair and a scraggly beard. His eyes are likewise amber. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: Quiet and reserved he prefers to listen than to talk. He will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: Gerald was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He 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. He now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and obtaining odd cultural dwarven artifacts is his passion

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: This exceptionally lanky woman tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with her rolled up shirt sleeves this gives her a very relaxed look. Her long auburn hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. Her green eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She goes out her way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one she won't accept into her heart. She always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove her into the Merchant business.

History: Althaea was born the youngest of three triplets. Being born in the west, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the west for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way south. She has been saving her money to try and buy her sister's freedom.

Motivation: She has decided she is irredeemable; and seeks redemption

Ideals: Optimist, Persistence. Bonds: Family, Criminal record. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She prefers to wear flannel. Her auburn hair is unkempt and raggedy. Her eyes are likewise gray. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: Nella is a sociable creature first and foremost. She loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. She can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. She is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. She haggles over everything, upselling her goods and buying cheap. She is persistent in everything.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the south; and to prove her worth to the world

Ideals: Extrovert, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Mentor. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: Amethyst (80 gp). 2 Acid flasks.

Description: She wears a grey wide-brimmed hat and grey clothes, but does not cut a very imposing figure. She walks with a slouch but will stand straight to her full 4'1" when asserting herself. Her hair is short and blonde. Her eyes are likewise gray.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. She is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. She helped her mother out around the business and became quite the natural. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 14 years.

Motivation: To be a Carpenter again; and obtaining odd cultural half-elven artifacts is her passion

Flaws: Sensitive. Bonds: Adventurer, Slave, Job. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 110 gp. Lapis lazuli (5 gp). Malachite (5 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This exceptionally lanky woman dresses in violet turtlenecks beneath a brown coat with violet slacks. Her tied-back hair is black. Her gray eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. Avice enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Her martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Her mother was a mechanic, and taught her how to fix just about anything. She was granted martial powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Ideals: Justice, Gifted, Persistence. Flaws: Addict, Hedonist. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: Rose (60 gp).