Description: He wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). He sports a flattop hair cut. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He considers himself the protector of his home. He feels this is his duty and calling. Qualen enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Gifted from a young age, Qualen studied abroad. Being born in the south, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the south for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way west. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Guardian, Family, In love. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 240 gp.

Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she wears a simple black robe with brown stripes complete with hood. Her white hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a deerstalker hat. She has blue eyes.

Personality: She is happy with her job as a Mayor. She turns her eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. She is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Yevelda grew up listening to her father's many stories. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 2 years.

Motivation: She is terrified, and will act out of fear; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Flaws: Selfish, Fearful. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Slave. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 40 gp.

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She wears black trousers with green and yellow striped suspenders. She wears various colorful collared shirts. Her black hair has been sun bleached extensively. Her ears are large.

Personality: She is shy and timid. She has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. She has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious western family, she was no stranger to responsibility. She always admired martial-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Her religion dominates her actions.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Rich, Religious. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 130 gp.

Description: She stands about 5'8" and wears professional attire. Her right hand appears badly burned and disfigured. She wears a feathered hat to cover her moderate length silver hair. She is baby faced.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Ishte embodies much of what other species detest in the Tieflings. She is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in her opinion.

History: Her father raised her in a mountain cabin. Through the years after Ishte was born, her mother became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the south. Ishte's mother didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. After a long history of fighting, Ishte and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and balancing her hectic life and new body guard responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: A moderately attractive woman, she does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. Her black hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. She has a dull look in her green eyes.

Personality: Her tongue was cut out and she uses sign language. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Geva is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Geva was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. Her father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her father was legitimate. She has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions.

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor, Religious. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 60 gp.