Description: A 4'0" southern woman, she wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her brown hair is knotted and matted. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: This woman loves poetry and to teach people poetry more than just about anything. She works hard and plays hard.

History: Her psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Dwarves in the south were limited. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the south; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 100 gp. Violet garnet (200 gp). Deep blue spinel (200 gp). 1 Half-Plate.

Description: This slender woman stands about 5'4". She wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. Her red hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. Her blue eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She is shy and timid. She has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. She is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: Gifted from a young age, Thiala studied abroad. When Thiala reached her early adolescence her Half-Elf mother passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, she decided to travel. Her rounds led her into the Army with a few individuals who would become her life-long companions. She's also a talented Scribe, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

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

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Military, Job. Occupation: Spy

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 700 gp.

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing white cape and mantle trimmed with soft green waves gently in the breeze. His silver hair is lengthy. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. In his youth he was a Weaver, and wanted to be a champion fighter when he grew up. He was working during a period of war, and as one of the natives he lived in fear of joining the others in being slaughtered. He saw the brutality and swore off his fighting aspirations, taking his younger sister on his back after seeing his parents die, and fled the country. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: To clean up the streets; and money/treasure

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: PTSD. Bonds: Rich, Guardian, Religious. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man of a pale complexion, he prefers to wear white clothing when he does not wear armor. With bright black hair and a scraggly beard. He has a dull look in his gray eyes.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. He cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one.

History: When he was but 6 years old his parents immigrated from the west. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west.

Ideals: Passionate, Philantrophist, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Layabout

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

Possessions: 12000 gp. A silver and pearl hairclip (40 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1300 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1100 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (300 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (500 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (30 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (500 gp). Jeweled gold crown (3000 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (300 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (500 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (6000 gp).