Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her scimitar with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. Her hair is long and red with streaks of black, and is pulled back with small red clips. Her violet eyes peer out from beneath her small red hat.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, she has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. 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: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. In her 12th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her mother impaled in their home, and her father beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. She left for the south, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and she is terrified, and will act out of fear

Ideals: Disciplined, Logical. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 1000 sp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A 2'9" western woman, she wears a red tunic with tan highlights, and long yellow pants that bunch up around her shoes. She has styled her chestnut hair well, parting it to the left. Her violet eyes peer out from beneath her feathered red hat.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. Eida is a bit of a follower. Usually she is manipulated by her sisters into helping them out, but recently she has become more of a free agent.

History: Eida lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. She was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. She was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of philosophers.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister; and she desires power and/or immortality

Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Family, Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 4000 sp. Coral (100 gp). Blue quartz (14 gp). Obsidian (14 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This tall, slender man likes to wear pastel tank tops with yellow pants. He wears his black fur down. His blue eyes peer out from beneath his wide-brimmed pastel hat.

Personality: He is a Mercenary first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He would rather hide behind his crafts than deal with other people.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Mercenary.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Job, Mentor, Nature. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: Jet (120 gp). Chalcedony (40 gp). Red spinel (120 gp).

Description: A 6'1" northern woman, she wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. She keeps her long red crest kept up in a rat tail. She has red eyes.

Personality: She is happy with her job as a Sellsword. She turns her eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. She is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with her old comrades. She has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. Like her mother and her brother before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Sellsword. She became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the north; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Poor, Religious. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 90 pp. Solid gold idol (1200 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (5000 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (1200 gp).