Description: She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. She has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. She has done her best to style her red hair to look like a famous performer. Her hazel eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She is a very philanthropic person; she spends her free time working at various soup kitchens. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Althaea is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Althaea was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. Her homeland was ravaged by war and she spent much of her life rebuilding it. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the east.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Philantrophist, Justice. Flaws: PTSD. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 1600 gp. Onyx (80 gp). Jade (110 gp). Star rose quartz (80 gp). Golden yellow topaz (300 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she tends to wear a large brown jacket. She has moderate length cinnamon fur. Her eyes are a pleasant amber.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. She receives visions of the future at random moments

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. Her childhood dream was to be a Ploughman, but she was a colossal failure. She has worked as a Fisher like her mother before her.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and she feels threatened by others

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 9000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she wears brown trousers with pastel and black striped suspenders. She wears various colorful collared shirts. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: A deeply religious woman she believes everything happens for a reason. She refers to her adoptive father 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: Fallthra hails from a village terrorized by drow. One day when Fallthra was young, her father was sewing while trying to overcome the flu, when suddenly her father dropped to the ground dead. Her father had died from a severe disease that was unknown to the village doctor. Fallthra was heart-stricken from the event, and her mother started working long hours to provde for them. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to drow demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and an old rival family wants her found

Flaws: Insomniac, PTSD. Bonds: Religious, Family, Enemies. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 4000 gp.

Description: He is a paragon of his species. He is larger and stronger than most Humans. His skin is light but he possesses many blue ritualistic tattoos. He tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. His brown hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His gray eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk he knows how to make people feel guilty. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: Gunter was born the youngest of three triplets. His childhood dream was to be a Merchant, but he was a colossal failure. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Ploughman.

Motivation: He loathes his own lifestyle.

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Family, Job. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: Just what you see.