Description: A moderately attractive woman, she dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. Her white hair is knotted and matted. She has a dull look in her gray eyes.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She lacks moral complications. She does what she is told to by employers but not much else. She spends her money on whatever she fancies at the time.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Nissa was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. Nissa was orphaned to a temple shortly after her birth. She was raised by the temple staff to care always for others above herself and to hold her god always in her heart. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Her religion dominates her actions; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Philantrophist. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Mentor, Religious. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 30 gp.

Description: A plain young-adult man, he wears a tan tunic with white highlights, and long pastel pants that bunch up around his shoes. His hair, while still mostly black, has prominent grey streaks. His blue eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: Gifted from a young age, Kipper studied abroad. Ostracized due to the necromantic powers of his oldest brother, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Gnomes became a terror of the countryside. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Junk Dealer.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Joker, Opinionated, Gifted. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears a white deerstalker hat and white clothes. He has shaved his head bald. His fierce brown eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He believes mankind has become decadent and spoiled by the march of civilization and an end should come to life as we know it. He is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. 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 achieved small success as a Adventurer.

Motivation: Wants a kiss; and to reunite with his old friends

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Nature, Adventurer, Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 30 gp. A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (60 gp).

Description: He prefers to wear black pants and tee shirts. He has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. He wears a Stetson hat to hide his balding. His eyes are likewise violet.

Personality: He has schizophrenia that causes him to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. He will do just about anything if he becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this he is easily convinced.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Cursed with vampirism at a very young age, Sark has worked very hard to control his curse. He was forced to fight in gladiatorial arenas alongside his partner. They became the best of friends and one day they managed to break out together and then went their separate ways.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and he's attracted to the pc

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Has a crush, Slave, Job. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 100 sp.

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally she sports a black coat. Her hair, while still mostly red, has prominent grey streaks. She has black eyes.

Personality: She is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. The war was a terrible time for her, and Ronobe does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: Born in the south to a Laborer, Ronobe learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. 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 Laborer. She's also a talented Fisher, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: Expand her business.

Flaws: Shy, Depressed. Bonds: Immigrant, Military, Job. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 800 sp. Zircon (70 gp). 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.