Description: This tall, slender woman is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. She has moderate length red hair. Her eyes are brown and catlike.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. Energy wise she seems alert and responsive.

History: A powerful wizard made her what she is. 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 Healer. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Healer for the past few years.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Philantrophist, Professionalism. Bonds: Mentor, Job, Rich. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 380 gp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy chestnut stubble. She tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with her rolled up shirt sleeves this gives her a very relaxed look. She has a hunchback. Her hair is chestnut and curly. Her amber eyes peer out from beneath her wide-brimmed brown hat.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Helgret embodies much of what other species detest in the Dwarves. Helgret enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: She was born in the west, but her parents moved at a very young age to the south. Helgret was born on a far western forest where she grew up under the tutelage of her mother, an expert Dyer. She has since married many spouses, only to have them die. She claims to not be responsible.

Motivation: She will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact.

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Hedonist. Bonds: In love, Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He is a husky man, who wears baggy tan pantaloons and a green scarf. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy golden hair. His gray eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. He is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: He was born in a small desert village. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He bought a greatsword and has really upped his game hunting, due to his understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother; and he is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs

Ideals: Joker, Logical. Bonds: Nature, Religious, Family. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 1200 sp.

Description: With tan face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she wears a tattered pair of loose white pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. Her white hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a feathered hat. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She is a very philanthropic person; she spends her free time working at various soup kitchens. She lacks restraint and is impulsive. She jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: Her father raised her in a mountain cabin. Vanchu liked to wander the woods near her home when she was young, something she still likes to do at least once a week. She never liked modest clothing or shoes, so she would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and she developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To prove her worth to the world; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Poor, Nature. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 2000 cp. Amber (130 gp). 1 Chain shirt.

Description: She is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. She carries with her a set of pickaxes on her belt, each one with a topaz on the hilt. She wears a colorful flower in her red hair. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her hazel eyes.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk she knows how to make people feel guilty. She takes great joy in being the best Butcher in town.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. Bethrynna abandoned her home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. She survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. She did whatever it took for her to survive. She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature pickaxe.

Motivation: She wants to meet her childhood hero; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Mentor, Adventurer. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 110 gp. Obsidian (5 gp).