Description: This younger middle-aged woman wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. She usually doesn't wear a shirt, and a wedding ring on her left hand. Her blonde hair is knotted and matted. Her green eyes peer out from beneath her broad red hat.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating she would invite many more into her home than her spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. She is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: She was born in a small plains village. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Jo 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 Jo. Lacking all sense, she decided to go on an adventure. She picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and she possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Ideals: Philantrophist, Optimist. Bonds: In love, Adventurer, Nature, Criminal record. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is an average looking eastern female in her early mid-life. She wears dark leathers with embroidery. Her hair is short and silver. Her blue eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She is a melancholic, but persistent worker. She resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. Cursed with vampirism at a very young age, Dara has worked very hard to control her curse. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: She feels kind of lost in life.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Addict, Depressed, Disease. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 400 sp. Iolite (80 gp).

Description: This exceptionally lanky man wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). He wears a broad hat to cover his moderate length black hair. His gray eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He has two modes he varies between. On the job he is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job he is a party animal. He constantly seizes attention wherever he goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. He likes to think of himself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: Aerdeth lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He 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. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: Many dire rats want him driven away; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Impeccable. Bonds: Job, Family, Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: She has a missing right arm. She usually wears her black robe and has her monstrous two handed axe always slung over her shoulder. She keeps her gold crest in a pixie cut. She has red eyes.

Personality: She has schizophrenia that causes her to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. She spends most of her days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There she gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform She became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: She has passion for adventuring and risk; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Adventurer, Slave. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (170 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (2400 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (300 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.