Description: This slender woman stands about 5'5". 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 moppish auburn hair is in a traditional bowl cut. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She is unhospitable to her core. Her small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. She refers to her adoptive mother for almost all things she is unsure about, which are numerous. She is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: She was born in a small desert village. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. By chance she met her sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: She is content; and doesn't want to be a merchant and was forced into it by her family

Flaws: Antagonistic, Mundane. Bonds: Family, Nature, Mentor. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 600 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is a mite stocky and wears a red cloak and cross-gartered white stockings. Her hair is long and red with streaks of blonde, and is pulled back with small red clips. Her blue eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. She is used to getting what she wants. In part because she is a meticulous planner.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. She was an apprentice working in her father's forge. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Baker.

Motivation: She doesn't get along with people that don't share her tastes; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Persistence, Professionalism, Impeccable. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Baker

Voice: German accent

Possessions: Alexandrite (700 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: His right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. His hair is always cut to a buzz. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation he is generally quite perceptive. He notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break; and he desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Insomniac, Insane. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: This woman wears dull green sweaters, loose tan pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath her sweater she keeps a concealed rapier, just in case. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized amethyst on her left hand. She has dyed her greying chestnut hair a little too much giving a sharp chestnut color. Her eyes are likewise silver.

Personality: She speaks before she thinks and is too direct. She will do just about anything if she becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this she is easily convinced.

History: Born in the north to a Sellsword, Criella learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a son. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: To prove her worth to the world.

Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Rich, Has a crush, Job, In love. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 370 gp. Solid gold idol (300 gp). 1 Silk rope.