Description: She wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. She has golden hair. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She is not truly malevolent, but she is obsessed with singing. She constantly tries to fill her life with singing. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her singing with anyone who is interested.

History: Engong was raised in a hard working conservative environment. She has had some formal singing training, and achieved minor success. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Miner for the past few years.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Job. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 90 pp.

Description: The man speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. He seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if he got out from a pool a few moments ago. He wears a white shirt with thin green vertical stripes and tan pants. His brown hair is long and unkept. His eyes are gray.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He plays an instrument quite well.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Miner arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered singing. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and he is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Secretive. Bonds: Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She is wearing a long, white cloak. She carries with her a set of swords, each one with a ruby on the hilt. She only wears one on her belt and the other on her back. Her red hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She has always had a great fascination with Half-Elven culture. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. 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 Detective. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 15 years.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions; and retire the richest woman in the west

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Job, Religious. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: His right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. He wears a broad hat to cover his moderate length white crest. His fierce red eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He likes to brag about his accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. He can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. Before the accident, he was one of the most outspoken anti-Tiefling activists. He was mortally wounded, saved by a kind and fast-acting Tiefling doctor. Recently a tribe of gnolls attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Torinn fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and a strong sense of loyalty to tiefling people

Ideals: Passionate, Gifted, Fighting. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: This woman is very fat, and is generally shirtless and showing off her tattooed chest. Her silver hair is still thick. Her green eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She is quiet and unassuming. She ignores others and carries on with her job unassumingly. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: She was born at the edge of vast plains. Aside from being a slave or a gladiator, there isn't much legitimate work for Gnomes in Carlin's homeland. Carlin decided to take the middle way and become a bodyguard. She left for the south, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Wants her loneliness to end; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Nature, Has a crush. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 160 gp. Smoky quartz (80 gp).