Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His hair is cut close to his head. His eyes are likewise red. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with dancing. He constantly tries to fill his life with dancing. He also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: The child of a Fortune-teller, who enjoyed hunting, Barakas was taken on many hunting expeditions. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Weaver. He has achieved small success as a Weaver.

Motivation: Expand his business; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Job. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 600 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. She has styled her white hair well, parting it to the right. Her eyes are silver and catlike.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. She is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: Her mother raised her in a mountain cabin. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the east.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Terse. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Nature. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 190 pp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He dresses in brown turtlenecks beneath a grey coat with red slacks. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. His golden hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a deerstalker hat. His violet unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He likes to fabricate stories about his past exploits and how crazy he is, but in actuality he is rather bland. He is ready at a moment's notice to give into his darker urges. He is a real pyromaniac and does not care who the fire hurts. He often ends up burning people alive in the fires he starts.

History: He was born into a rich family. His father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: He seems to be bored by most things.

Flaws: Disease, Mundane, Insane. Bonds: Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 100 pp. A roughly beaten golden orb (100 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (100 gp). A delicate brass dragon egg (10 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (1100 gp). Gold music box (4000 gp). Solid gold idol (1100 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. His copper crest is heavily combed to the right. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He never wears the same outfit twice, unless he absolutely has to.

History: He comes from a rich eastern family. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his sons to still be retired.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Rich, Family, Criminal record. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 500 gp. Sard (70 gp). Jacinth (3000 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman is very fat, and wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized grey coat. She keeps her auburn hair in a flapper bob. Her fierce hazel eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She resents people who mock her appearance or her, so she has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. She also has developed a complete distrust of the Fortune-teller profession.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. She went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job.

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Rich, Religious. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: 110 gp.