Description: The light-skinned woman stands 5'0" and wears a blue feathered hat and blue clothes. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. Her blue eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: This woman loves painting and to teach people painting more than just about anything. Valanthe enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Actor arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Valanthe grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Valanthe. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Gnomish artifacts is her passion; and meet up once more with her childhood friend

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Addict, Hedonist. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record, Adventurer. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 13000 cp.

Description: She stands about 5'11" and tends to wear a black poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt. Her right hand appears badly burned and disfigured. Her red hair, when down, is lengthy. Her black eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She is quiet and unassuming. She ignores others and carries on with her job unassumingly. She is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Purah grew up listening to her father's many stories. She helped her father out around the business and became quite the natural. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 11 years.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the east.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Bonds: Job, Military, Adventurer. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 6000 sp. Moonstone (50 gp). Black pearl (1500 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: 3'6" and muscular, this northern man does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. His hair is brown and curly. His amber eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He is happy with his job as a Unemployed. He turns his eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. He is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. In his youth he was part of a gang. He got caught, but did not rat out his comrades and served his time in prison. He is searching for what he claims is his rightful reward.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends; and he has decided he is irredeemable

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 30 pp. Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she wears bulky pastel painted plate armor. Her orange fur is thinning but still full. Her blue eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She is happy with her job as a Courier. She turns her eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. She plays an instrument quite well.

History: When she was but 7 years old her parents immigrated from the south. A freak accident while working with her Ruler father left her crippled. She's also a talented Ruler, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: To clean up the streets; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Guardian. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 2000 gp. Black opal (1500 gp). Hematite (8 gp). Deep green spinel (160 gp).