Description: This late middle aged woman is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time and is in decent physical shape. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She will rave to anyone who will listen. Despite her manner, she is extremely passionate and proud of her job, and she prides herself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: Artin was raised in a hard working conservative environment. She moved out east to avoid the crime she committed. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: She possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal.

Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 20 pp. Amethyst (60 gp).

Description: This exceptionally lanky woman prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for her hunting needs. Her silver hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. Her eyes are a pleasant brown.

Personality: She loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. She is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. 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 remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by giants, and she desires to right it; and a deep hatred of giants

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Selfish, Shy. Bonds: Rich, Military, Enemies. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 1200 gp. Deep blue spinel (1500 gp). Moonstone (20 gp). Black pearl (1500 gp).

Description: She likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. She carries a battered scythe and tarnished hammer as well. Her hair is chestnut and very short. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage daughter.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her mother. Her first spouse was a Bookbinder, they had one daughter, but her spouse won total custody. Without her spouse to temper her she grew out of control. By chance she met her sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion; and her religion dominates her actions

Ideals: Fighting, Opinionated. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Family, Religious. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 900 gp. Black pearl (1500 gp).

Description: The man speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. He seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if he got out from a pool a few moments ago. He wears blue leather gloves, a blue jacket, and tight pants. He keeps his long black hair kept up in a rat tail. His eyes are green and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks his mind. He will do just about anything if he becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this he is easily convinced.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He's in love; and he has a crush on the local priest

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Has a crush. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: Sardonyx (80 gp). Violet garnet (1400 gp). Hematite (10 gp). Moss agate (10 gp). Moonstone (80 gp). Rock crystal (80 gp).