Description: This exceptionally lanky woman is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. She wears a small hat to cover her moderate length white hair. Her silver eyes peer out from beneath her small black hat.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. She is always in debt, since she spends her money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: Trained by her father for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. After coming to the age of reason, Ishte took it upon herself to study the arcane arts in their entirety; because of this, she was labeled a dark omen and banished from her homeland. She was granted arcane powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Ideals: Gifted, Logical. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Poor, Military. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 800 gp. Citrine (50 gp). Aquamarine (1000 gp). Red spinel (50 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He prefers to wear flannel, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 6'1" when asserting himself. He has moderate length black hair. He has several tiny sapphire earrings on each ear.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: Trained by his father for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. 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: Retire the richest man in the north; and his religion dominates his actions

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Rich, Religious, Military. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 300 gp. Moonstone (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He likes to wear black tank tops with blue pants. He has moderate length dark red hair. He has gleaming, smiling black eyes.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. He takes great joy in being the best Carpenter in town.

History: The child of a Performer, who enjoyed hunting, Amnon was taken on many hunting expeditions. His father was a soldier and died while he was still young. Amnon was left his father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Carpenter for the past few years.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Dwarven artifacts is his passion; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Job, Nature, Military, Adventurer. Occupation: Carpenter

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

Possessions: 1400 gp.

Description: She is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing red cape and mantle trimmed with soft green waves gently in the breeze. She carries with her a set of scimitars, each one with a sapphire on the hilt. She only wears one on her belt and the other on her back. Her blonde hair is heavily combed to the right. She has a dull look in her brown eyes.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Trym will drive conversation. She also is a firm believer in the womanly ideal.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Her father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: She is greedy.

Ideals: Fighting, Extrovert. Flaws: Impulsive, Mundane. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 80 pp. Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp).