Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he wears a simple brown robe with black stripes complete with hood. He has styled his brown fur well, parting it to the left. His yellow eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: A powerful wizard made him what he is. 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 Miner. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Miner for hire.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and balancing his hectic life and new miner responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Passionate, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Mentor, Job, Family. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. 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. His blue eyes peer out from beneath his small blue hat.

Personality: He likes to fabricate stories about his past exploits and how crazy he is, but in actuality he is rather bland. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Athletic. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Slave. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 1000 sp.

Description: This woman is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of her veins is visible when she is not flexing. Her shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for her due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. She wears a broad hat to hide her balding. Her eyes are brown and catlike.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: She was raised in a island tribe. Caramip liked to wander the woods near her home when she was young, something she still likes to do at least once a week. She never liked modest clothing or shoes, so she would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and she developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. She used her abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and marry her sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Philantrophist, Gifted. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 400 gp. A delicate silver chain set with a tourmaline (10 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (600 gp).

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 wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with deerstalker hat. Her silver hair is heavily combed to the right. She has hazel eyes.

Personality: She acts crazy and hedonistic. Thiala enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: She was born several months after her father was called into army service. When Thiala reached her early adolescence her Half-Elf father passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, she decided to travel. Her rounds led her into the Army with a few individuals who would become her life-long companions. She now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: She's in love; and she has a crush on the local architect

Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Military, Adventurer, Has a crush. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 600 gp. Moss agate (7 gp). Moonstone (80 gp). Brown-green garnet (140 gp).