Description: She is in excellent shape and wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her dark red hair is smooth and relatively long. She has gleaming, smiling gold eyes.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. She will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: Akta lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Her mother worked until she suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. She had to support her now crippled mother and took her mother's old job. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: To prove her worth to the world; and an old rival family wants her found

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Athletic, Fighting. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 700 gp.

Description: This slender man stands about 3'3". He usually wears his white robe and has his falchion always slung over his shoulder. His silver hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. His hazel eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. He has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. His first spouse was a Cartwright, they had one daughter, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Priest responsibilities is difficult; and to reunite with his absent mother

Flaws: Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Family, Job. Occupation: Priest

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 5000 gp. Deep blue spinel (1400 gp). Smoky quartz (70 gp). Chrysoprase (70 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: An older man who is renowned for his bright black suits and hats, he is not a threatening figure. He sports a flattop crest cut. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep red.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating he would invite many more into his home than his spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. He cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist he will grow angry at them.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. His psionic abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 3000 sp. Eye agate (16 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is a small woman, but exceptionally fit. She tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with her rolled up shirt sleeves this gives her a very relaxed look. She has dyed her greying gray fur a little too much giving a sharp gray color. Her amber eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: She's a bit of a prankster. She knows she is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. She has a small toy that she constantly fidgets with.

History: The child of a Server, who enjoyed hunting, Spring was taken on many hunting expeditions. She was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. She bought a scimitar and has really upped her game hunting, due to her understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: Her religion dominates her actions; and obtaining odd cultural gnomish artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Athletic, Joker. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Nature, Adventurer, Religious. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 800 pp. Eye agate (6 gp). Fire opal (1300 gp). Black star sapphire (1300 gp). Lapis lazuli (6 gp). Red-brown spinel (80 gp). Aquamarine (1000 gp). Deep blue spinel (1000 gp). Moss agate (6 gp). Chrysoprase (50 gp).