Description: She is lean but muscular and is dressed in earthy colors with a tan and brown handkerchief worn on her right side. Her hair, while still mostly chestnut, has prominent grey streaks. She is baby faced.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Ranala will drive conversation. She loves being with her children and actually smiles when they are around. She would do anything for them. She dislikes her ex a great deal.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. She dropped out of school before completing her studies. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Extrovert, Logical. Bonds: Family, Rich. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 300 sp.

Description: He wears a worn and beaten armor. His golden hair is greasy and uncared for. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines brown.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Junk Dealer born in the past three hundred years. He has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: Gifted from a young age, Tordek studied abroad. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Tordek grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Tordek. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable; and he feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 1500 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He wears a yellow vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His pastel leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his yellow boots flare out at the collars. He has wavy auburn hair. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He has schizophrenia that causes him to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. Flattery will make him almost putty in your hands.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. His father worked until he suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. He had to support his now crippled father and took his father's old job. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Marry his brother to traveling adventurers.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Selfish. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 400 gp. Rose (80 gp). Hematite (11 gp). Freshwater pearl (11 gp).

Description: This woman wears many layers of old clothing at all times. She is muscular with a powerful set of arms. Her golden hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a cross scrunchie. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. She is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: Shamil hails from a village terrorized by giants. She made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. Lacking all sense, she decided to go on an adventure. She picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: She desires power and/or immortality; and she has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Lazy. Bonds: Poor, Enemies, Adventurer. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 60 pp. Iolite (80 gp). Red-brown spinel (130 gp). Red spinel (130 gp). 1 Good lock.

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. Her golden hair is matted, messy, and big. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: A grumpy gal she will invite people to lunch so she can critique them. Yet she still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. She takes great joy in being the best Layabout in town.

History: Born to a Performer, her father struggled to pay the bills. 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 Layabout. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: To be a Performer again; and expand her business

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Poor. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 400 sp. A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (20 gp).