Description: 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 skin is fair and her fingers are delicate and long. Her black hair is thinning but still full. Her violet eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Shautha will drive conversation. She is used to getting what she wants. In part because she is a meticulous planner.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. She inherited a moderately successful company from her father. Under her leadership it has flourished, and using capital from her venture she effectively owns an entire region. She has recently attracted an admirer that believes she's playing hard to get.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and she has a crush on the local locksmith

Ideals: Extrovert, Professionalism. Bonds: Rich, Has a crush, Adventurer. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 1100 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (600 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1700 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of his veins is visible when he is not flexing. His shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for him due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. His red hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. His eyes are blue.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the south. More though he will beg to come along on any journeys. He will attempt to stowaway on any ship he can in the hopes that it will get him further away.

History: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. He was taken from his home at a very young age. 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: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Pacifist. Flaws: Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Slave. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 8000 gp. Canary diamond (5000 gp). Tourmaline (110 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with top hat, and carries monstrous two handed axes. His red crest is smooth and relatively long. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: This man loves writing and to teach people writing more than just about anything. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing writing.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. He was taken from his home at a very young age. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Flaws: Insomniac, Antagonistic. Bonds: Slave. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what he was had he not made sure his armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit he tends to wear a black poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. His dark red hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. He has several tiny sapphire earrings on each ear.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the south. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

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. His martial abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He used his abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and seeks redemption

Ideals: Pacifist, Gifted. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 600 gp.