Description: She is scrawny and has patchy red stubble. She very much looks the part of a Marshal. She has a hunchback. She has moderate length red hair. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She considers herself the perfect lady. She makes a point to always show proper etiquette and frequently critiques the etiquette of others. She is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: Mastema was raised in a hard working conservative environment. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Marshal. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and she desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 200 sp. Iolite (60 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A thin man, he clearly needs to put on some weight, but he still has a lot of muscle. He wears dark leathers with embroidery. His blonde hair is cut short. His half smiles and gray eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. Heward enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Heward was born with his father's beautiful face. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Athletic, Passionate. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Poor. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 300 sp. Red garnet (70 gp).

Description: She wears a simple grey robe with black stripes complete with hood. She cuts an attractive figure and her suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. Her silver hair is cut short. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep gray.

Personality: She is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. She is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Oriel was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. She 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. She became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: Meet up once more with her childhood friend; and obtaining odd cultural dwarven artifacts is her passion

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Mentor. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 110 gp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: He is a pot bellied western man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears a tan vest and prefers grey and tan shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. His white hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. This amber eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He has two modes he varies between. On the job he is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job he is a party animal. He has a small toy that he constantly fidgets with.

History: Trained by his mother for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. His mother was a soldier and died while he was still young. Carrie was left his mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. He tends to his Guard job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: Expand his business; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Job, Military. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 600 sp. An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (170 gp).

Description: This fat eastern woman has a bulbous nose and wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath her coat. Her skin is also unnaturally pale. Her black hair, when down, is lengthy. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

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 is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: She was born at the edge of vast desert. She went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and she is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Military, Nature, Religious. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 400 gp.