Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She typically wears grey cloth garments or leather armor. Her hair is cut close to her head. Her blue eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. A true patriot, Ahlyssa would do anything for her country. She is fiercely protective of her fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: Ahlyssa was raised in a hard working conservative environment. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. She left for the west, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and further expansion of business

Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Job, Military, Nature, Immigrant. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 140 gp. Malachite (14 gp).

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 sports a flattop crest cut. She wears large thick round spectacles.

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 receives visions of the future at random moments

History: Farideh was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Her parents enrolled her in a Ranger school at a young age so that she could practice her divine talents. She was granted divine powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Persistence, Gifted. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 600 gp. Tiger eye turquoise (7 gp).

Description: He is a pot bellied northern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. He sports a flattop hair cut. This silver eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Damakos embodies much of what other species detest in the Tieflings. He uses divination through singing.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted, Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic, Insane. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: He wears an entirely brown suit with green socks and a vest with buckled shoes, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 4'3" when asserting himself. His chestnut hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. His hazel eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: He was born in the south. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it.

Bonds: Enemies, Adventurer, Immigrant, Mentor. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 16000 sp.