Description: She stands about 5'3" and wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her left hand appears badly burned and disfigured. Her black hair is well kept. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. She feeds upon the attention of others.

History: Theirastra lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her sons to still be retired.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the west; and an old rival family wants her found

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Persistence. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 1000 sp.

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. He has dyed his greying brown hair a little too much giving a sharp brown color. His amber eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He receives visions of the future at random moments

History: Gifted from a young age, Radomir studied abroad. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by orcs. Radomir was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the orcs.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and he feels kind of lost in life

Ideals: Gifted, Optimist. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp).

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she wears long strands of aquamarine and short violet dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. She has done her best to style her white hair to look like a famous performer. Her eyes are hazel and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She is irascible and easily irritated. She also hits on women, regardless of circumstances.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Cecily was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. She helped her father out around the business and became quite the natural. She then took over the family business and is one of the better Mason for hire.

Motivation: Wants a kiss; and she's repulsed by the pc

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Has a crush, Mentor, Job. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: 90 gp.

Description: An older man who typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep black leather and dull violet iron scale mail, he is not a threatening figure. His silver crest is greasy and uncared for. His gold eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: The child of western immigrants he idolized his father. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 300 gp. Smoky quartz (20 gp). Alexandrite (500 gp). Obsidian (10 gp).

Description: She wears tattered old clothes. Her hair, while still mostly white, has prominent grey streaks. Her eyes are likewise black. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She is a very philanthropic person; she spends her free time working at various soup kitchens. She would rather hide behind her crafts than deal with other people.

History: Mastema 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 east. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her sons to still be retired.

Motivation: Marry her brother to traveling adventurers; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother

Ideals: Philantrophist, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 60 gp.