Description: This malnourished woman is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. Her scarlet crest has been sun bleached extensively. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She likes to make people angry or surprised. 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: She was raised in a desert tribe. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the south; and she's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Nature. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 34000 sp.

Description: He likes to wear white tank tops with black pants, and carries daggers. His red hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: His voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl he speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of his tone. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Cynical, Forgetful, Mundane. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: Golden pearl (60 gp).

Description: She is a paragon of her species. She is larger and stronger than most Gnomes. Her skin is dark but she possesses many red ritualistic tattoos. She prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for her hunting needs. She keeps her long blonde hair kept up in a rat tail. Her eyes are hazel and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She fancies herself a trickster and likes to rely on her wits to carry the day. She cares for her older siblings and likes to be recognized by 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: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Bather arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. She married young, but lost her spouse to giants. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Cartwright they were divorced and she won custody of their daughter. She worked as a Bather, and she later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and many giants want her driven away

Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Rich, Family, Adventurer, Enemies, Job. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 1000 cp. Pink pearl (80 gp).

Description: A man of a pale complexion, he is dressed in a clean violet cloak covering his clean studded leather. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. He has gleaming, smiling amber eyes.

Personality: This man loves poetry and to teach people poetry more than just about anything. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage daughter.

History: Mindartis lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He inherited a moderately successful company from his father. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. He's also a talented Sculptor, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Fletcher responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Family, Rich, Job. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 300 gp.