Description: She is a paragon of her species. She is larger and stronger than most Half-Elves. Her skin is light but she possesses many yellow ritualistic tattoos. She wears suspenders and violet workpants. Her shirt is yellow, and she wears a heavy violet leather apron most of the time. She has shaved her head bald. Her blue eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: Stoic and calm, she prefers to meditate than take action. She always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove her into the Shepherd business.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. Her mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of philosophers.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and balancing her hectic life and new shepherd responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Disciplined, Persistence. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 3 Alchemist’s fire.

Description: She wears black robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally she wears more armor. She prefers to carry a rapier, but if one is not available she will default to her scimitar. She is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly scimitars and rapiers. She wears a small hat to hide her balding. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: Calm and collected, she is a well trained Miner. She is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

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 helped her father out around the business and became quite the natural. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Miner for the past few years.

Motivation: She feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help; and a rival would like her out of the picture

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 5000 cp.

Description: This woman dresses in pastel turtlenecks beneath a black coat with red slacks. She is muscular with a powerful set of arms. She sports a flattop fur cut. Her green eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. She is stubborn though. She always likes to keep a trick up her sleeve. She likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if she feels she even has a chance of losing.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Ethereal 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 Ethereal. She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature pickaxe.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the south; and she has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Criminal record, Mentor, Adventurer. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 4000 sp.

Description: This man dresses like a well dressed Doctor does. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized topaz on his right hand. His crest is short and white. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: Calm and collected, he is a well trained Doctor. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. 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. After months of barely getting by, Kiirith managed to ambush a major caravan with a load of valuables. Instantly wealthy, he made his way to the capital under a new identity.

Motivation: He is greedy; and he possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Ideals: Professionalism. Bonds: Job, Rich, Slave, Criminal record. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

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