Description: She is an average looking eastern female in her early mid-life. She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her hair is short and red. She has several tiny topaz earrings on each ear.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. She is kind towards other women and children and will generally offer women help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to her.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Andraste was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of specialists.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the east; and she is greedy

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Philantrophist. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Rich, Mentor. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 500 sp.

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what she was had she not made sure her armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit she dresses like a well dressed Mason does. She has a very tight haircut. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: In the realm of puns, she cannot help herself. She feels obliged to make them. She never wears the same outfit twice, unless she absolutely has to.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. She sought a place where she would be rewarded solely on the merits of her skills. This search led her directly into Mason work with an outfit from a few towns over. Mason work suited her well, and with each successful project, she earned more gold and more respect from her peers. She has never given up on her painting dream.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Ideals: Joker, Artistic, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Artisan’s tools.

Description: He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with brown lining and desert motifs. He carries with him a set of hand crossbows, each one with a jet on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. His hair is silver and curly. His eyes are hazel.

Personality: He is a very happy person and has lots of energy. To put it simply, he's a very lovable idiot. He is fiercely devoted to his mother, and views his mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-sister.

History: He was born at the edge of vast desert. At a young age both his parents were killed in an accident. His uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took him in and had him trained in basic self defense. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist. Bonds: Family, Nature, Criminal record. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 4000 gp. A detailed rose, with petals and thorns, constructed of silver and electrum (40 gp). Jeweled gold crown (3000 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1300 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a violet cloak and cross-gartered blue stockings. He wears a deerstalker hat to hide his balding. He has several tiny aquamarine earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes gnolls are coming to abduct people. 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 mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. 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 Merchant. After a long history of fighting, Chad and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Enemies, Job. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.