Description: A plain young-adult woman, she is wearing a long, brown, dusty cloak. She keeps her long black hair kept up in a rat tail. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She hates dire rats. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She is always in debt, since she spends her money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: Her mother raised her in a mountain cabin. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. She became a Beggar soon after.

Motivation: She's looking for her big break; and she desires power and/or immortality

Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Enemies, Nature, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 1500 gp. Finely wrought small gold bracelet (100 gp). Old masterpiece painting (2200 gp).

Description: 4'7" and muscular, this eastern woman wears a fine chain shirt which she covers with green colored cloaks and clothing. Her dark red hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. She has gleaming, smiling red eyes.

Personality: She runs her personal life as if detached from it. She organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits she will get from it. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. She went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. Recently a tribe of orcs attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Ronobe fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Fighting. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 700 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. She has done her best to style her red hair to look like a famous performer. Her red eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She is not truly malevolent, but she is obsessed with writing. She constantly tries to fill her life with writing. Her temper goes off on the smallest of things. She tends to lash out at those around her.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. Her father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her father was legitimate. After a long history of fighting, Ea and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the south; and she is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Religious. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 130 gp.

Description: She wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with tan lining and desert motifs. Her hair, while still mostly blonde, has prominent grey streaks. Her hazel eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. She disdains her fellow westerners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Ranala was born on a far western desert where she grew up under the tutelage of her father, an expert Bounty Hunter. She got away from her former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Bounty Hunter and was forced into it by her family; and marry her sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Disease, Addict. Bonds: Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 400 gp.