Description: An older woman who wears a black costume with the symbols of the sun god on her torso, she is not a threatening figure. She wears a deerstalker hat to hide her balding. Her eyes are silver and catlike.

Personality: This woman loves painting and to teach people painting more than just about anything. She is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: Mastema lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. A freak accident while working with her Adventurer mother left her crippled. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: She has a crush on the local Adventurer; and to unite with her brother

Ideals: Artistic, Logical. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Family, Has a crush. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy chestnut stubble. He wears dull tan sweaters, loose pastel pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath his sweater he keeps a concealed shield, just in case. He has a hunchback. His chestnut hair is singed and shortened. His violet unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: His mother raised him in a mountain cabin. He always admired psionic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He was granted psionic powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: To be a Merchant again; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Persistence, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 6000 cp. Obsidian (4 gp). 1 Banded mail.

Description: He is in excellent shape and is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His chestnut hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. This blue eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He fancies himself a trickster and likes to rely on his wits to carry the day. He cares for his older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. He has all his life been fascinated with music.

History: When he was but 3 years old his parents immigrated from the north. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Shipwright they were divorced and he won custody of their daughter. He worked as a Slave Trader, and he later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister.

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic. Bonds: Family, Immigrant, Religious. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Masterwork Heavy steel shield. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: This late middle aged man wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition and is in decent physical shape. His hair is auburn, silky, and of moderate length. His eyes are green and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is irritable and easily angered. He is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use his stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. He was taken from his home at a very young age. After a long history of fighting, Thorin and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC.

Flaws: Antagonistic, Forgetful. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Slave. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He is a husky man, who is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing black cape and mantle trimmed with soft brown waves gently in the breeze. He wears his black hair down. He is baby faced.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. He uses divination through singing.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. His homeland was ravaged by war and he spent much of his life rebuilding it. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help; and money/treasure

Ideals: Gifted, Logical. Flaws: Shy, PTSD. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 300 sp. 1 Masterwork Artisan’s tools.