Description: This late middle aged woman tends to wear a violet poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt and is in decent physical shape. Her auburn hair is wavy and long. Her eyes are violet and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She will rave to anyone who will listen. She dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. Her biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: She was born in a small desert village. Valanthe 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 now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: She wants to get laid; and she's attracted to the pc

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Nature, Rich, Has a crush. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 200 sp.

Description: She is a pot bellied southern woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She very much looks the part of a Seamstress. Sporting a golden mohawk this woman's hair draws a lot of attention. Her amber eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food she seems plenty friendly. She is cautious and jumpy. She reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: Zanna lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. A gifted student she started as a Bricklayer, but she got bored and became a Seamstress. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and she is terrified, and will act out of fear

Ideals: Athletic, Philantrophist. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 16000 sp.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She wears a black coat over a tan low-cut shirt, and a broad hat upon her head. Her crest is silver and curly. Her eyes are red and catlike.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. Tatyan enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. She found a children's book about a Dragonborn Expert who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. She modeled her life after the story, seeing herself destined a hero. She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature spear.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 3000 sp. Malachite (13 gp). Star rose quartz (20 gp). Chalcedony (20 gp). Blue star sapphire (600 gp). Red spinel (50 gp). Azurite (13 gp).

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep grey leather and dull white iron scale mail. His long auburn hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes brigands are coming to abduct people. He is fiercely devoted to his mother, and views his mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-brother.

History: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. Being born in the north, 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 north 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. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his sons to still be retired.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and regain custody of his son

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Enemies, Family. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 5000 cp.