Description: A woman with a warm, jovial air about her, she wears a brown cloak and cross-gartered green stockings. She has wavy white hair. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. 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: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. Ostracized due to the arcane powers of her oldest brother, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Dwarves became a terror of the countryside. After a long history of fighting, Valida and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and she is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur, Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 400 sp.

Description: This man wears a white cloak and cross-gartered brown stockings, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His red hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. A few years later when the east was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He was granted druidic powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and balancing his hectic life and new mayor responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Logical, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 50 gp.

Description: He typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep brown leather and dull pastel iron scale mail. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. His golden hair is unkempt and raggedy. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He is a Adventurer first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Adventurer. He struck the Adventurer job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Adventurer responsibilities is difficult; and further expansion of business

Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Poor, Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 500 sp. An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (80 gp).

Description: He wears a simple brown robe with black stripes complete with hood. His red hair is smooth and relatively long. His blue eyes peer out from beneath his Stetson brown hat.

Personality: Quiet and reserved he prefers to listen than to talk. He will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. The war was a terrible time for him, and Odo does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: He was raised in a mountains tribe. Odo was born on a far western mountains where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Detective. He left for the west, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and he loathes his own lifestyle

Flaws: Shy, Depressed. Bonds: Military, Nature, Immigrant. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 2000 cp. 4 Antitoxin.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears a white cloak and cross-gartered brown stockings. His hair is always cut to a buzz. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are amber.

Personality: This man loves writing and to teach people writing more than just about anything. The war was a terrible time for him, and Chay does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: He was born in the north, but his parents moved at a very young age to the south. He 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. He has never given up on his writing dream.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Military, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 3000 cp.