Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She prefers to wear black pants and tee shirts. Her hair is short and blue. Her silver eyes peer out from beneath her deerstalker black hat.

Personality: She speaks before she thinks and is too direct. She invites people to come help in her community garden.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when dire rats swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. Markosian was orphaned to a temple shortly after her birth. She was raised by the temple staff to care always for others above herself and to hold her god always in her heart. She left for the east, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud; and she has a rivalry with the church that dominates her actions

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Immigrant, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 400 gp. Amethyst (60 gp). Blue quartz (14 gp).

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep blue leather and dull black iron scale mail. He wears his red hair down. He has hazel eyes.

Personality: This man loves poetry and to teach people poetry more than just about anything. 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: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Being born in the west, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the west for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way east. He is searching for what he claims is his rightful reward.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent father; and he wants revenge against giants

Ideals: Artistic, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Family, Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: She is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing brown cape and mantle trimmed with soft pastel waves gently in the breeze. She is portly but not overly obese. Her silver hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. She has gleaming, smiling brown eyes.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: Trained by her father for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. Oriff was orphaned to a temple shortly after her birth. She was raised by the temple staff to care always for others above herself and to hold her god always in her heart. She eventually got the idea of being the protector of her homeland from reading books, and has made it her duty.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and to protect her home

Ideals: Philantrophist. Bonds: Rich, Guardian, Religious, Military. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: Onyx (40 gp). Obsidian (6 gp). Black pearl (900 gp).

Description: He is in excellent shape and is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest. He keeps his golden hair in a pixie cut. His gray eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. He takes great joy in being the best Laborer in town.

History: Trained by his father for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. 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. Being a Laborer kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: Expand his business; and he possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Job, Military, Criminal record. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 300 pp. Blue quartz (15 gp). Rose (20 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (15 gp). Rhodochrosite (15 gp). Rock crystal (20 gp). Rich purple corundum (700 gp). Aquamarine (1000 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1000 gp). Freshwater pearl (15 gp). Blue quartz (15 gp). Carnelian (20 gp). Golden pearl (150 gp). Peridot (20 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (700 gp). Lapis lazuli (15 gp). Bloodstone (20 gp). Amethyst (150 gp). Chrysoberyl (150 gp). Red-brown spinel (150 gp). Brown-green garnet (150 gp).