Description: This younger middle-aged woman wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents, and a wedding ring on her left hand. She wears her purple hair down. Her black eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. She works hard and plays hard.

History: Naamah was born in the north. At a young age she loved to build and create. She was one of the best in her class, and was picked up by her current employer. She quickly showed her capability and was soon promoted to a head role. She has worked as a Miner like her mother before her.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, In love, Job. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 600 gp. Moss agate (13 gp). Violet garnet (1000 gp).

Description: This man wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. His rusty crest is lengthy. His ears are large.

Personality: He is shy and timid. He has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. He works hard and plays hard.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Carter arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He is greedy.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Hedonist. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She is a husky woman, who wears a worn and beaten armor. Her hair is short and chestnut. Her half smiles and amber eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. She has a small toy that she constantly fidgets with.

History: Merla was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her mother was employed at, doing general labor. Her father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her father was legitimate. She eventually got the idea of being the protector of her homeland from reading books, and has made it her duty.

Motivation: To protect her home; and she is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs

Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Attractive, Guardian, Poor, Religious. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Scottish accent

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

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. He wears a top hat to hide his balding. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He hates dire rats. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He is fiercely devoted to his mother, and views his mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-sister.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. His mother was a soldier and died while he was still young. Beiro was left his mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. After a long history of fighting, Beiro and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world; and many dire rats want him driven away

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Family, Military. Occupation: Server

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 3000 cp.

Description: She is of a modest build and height, but she carries herself more imposing than she is. She is dressed in an above average manner. She has a very tight haircut. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as she rather likes the sound of her voice. Her demeanor is somewhat feminine. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her painting with anyone who is interested.

History: She was born in the north. Being born in the north, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the north for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way east. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well; and her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Optimist, Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 40 gp.