Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. Her golden hair is well kept. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. She is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of her. She is by nature obliging.

History: She comes from a rich southern family. She was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: She feels the way she acts is they only way to get by in the world; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Optimist, Impeccable. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 600 gp. Banded agate (7 gp). Sardonyx (70 gp). Freshwater pearl (7 gp). Malachite (7 gp). Bloodstone (70 gp). Bloodstone (70 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: 4'9" and muscular, this northern woman does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. Her white fur is slicked back into a classic pompadour. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. She is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. She haggles over everything, upselling her goods and buying cheap. She is persistent in everything.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. She inherited a moderately successful company from her father. Under her leadership it has flourished, and using capital from her venture she effectively owns an entire region. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Blacksmith responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Athletic, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep violet leather and dull brown iron scale mail. He has a very tight haircut. His eyes are likewise brown.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: Wymar lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. His father disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his father, he was betrayed dozens of times. He now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: To pay off his debts; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Flaws: Secretive, Shy. Bonds: Family, Adventurer, Debt. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 400 pp. Old masterpiece painting (1700 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (700 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (700 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (70 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (70 gp). A delicate brass dragon egg (30 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (4000 gp). Jeweled gold crown (8000 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (700 gp).

Description: He is dressed in a clean tan cloak covering his clean studded leather. He carries with him a set of sickles, each one with a sapphire on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. He keeps his black hair in a flapper bob. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: Heian is depressed about a lot of things. He tends to be a nihilist. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Performer but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. In his youth he was a Shoemaker, and wanted to be a champion fighter when he grew up. He was working during a period of war, and as one of the natives he lived in fear of joining the others in being slaughtered. He saw the brutality and swore off his fighting aspirations, taking his younger brother on his back after seeing his parents die, and fled the country. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He feels kind of lost in life.

Ideals: Fighting, Pacifist. Flaws: Depressed, Disease, PTSD. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Half-Plate.