Description: 4'3" and lanky with angular features, she is an attractive figure. She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her moppish black hair is in a traditional bowl cut. She has a dull look in her amber eyes.

Personality: This woman loves poetry and to teach people poetry more than just about anything. She is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: She comes from a rich northern family. Ostracized due to the martial powers of her oldest brother, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Dwarves became a terror of the countryside. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and money/treasure

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Artistic, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Detective

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 80 gp.

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). She wears her silver hair up in a very large beehive style do. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are green.

Personality: She exudes charisma. She is a tour de force of persuasion. She moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep her interest for a month it is impressive.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Oriel grew up listening to her father's many stories. She was a friend to animals and a trickster. In her defense of animals however she would do severe harm to people. She has became unsatisfied with her lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and she has money and likes to spend it

Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Nature, Rich. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 1200 pp. Tiger eye turquoise (13 gp). Deep blue spinel (800 gp). Alexandrite (800 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with green lining and desert motifs. His black hair is heavily combed to the left. He has several tiny amber earrings on each ear.

Personality: He likes to fabricate stories about his past exploits and how crazy he is, but in actuality he is rather bland. He lacks moral complications. He does what he is told to by employers but not much else. He spends his money on whatever he fancies at the time.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. A gifted student he started as a Crown-heir, but he got bored and became a Layabout. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Rich, Job, Religious. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 230 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: Standing 4'5", this man wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates his frame. His red hair and beard is wavy and long. His brown eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Laborer arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. 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: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Addict, Insane, Selfish. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He wears a brown armored body suit, with a simple green line shooting up and back down. His black hair is braided into rings. His skin is flawless and his gray eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. He loves being with his children and actually smiles when they are around. He would do anything for them. He dislikes his ex a great deal.

History: Travok was born the youngest of three triplets. Being born in the south, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the south for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way north. He has been saving his money to try and buy his sister's freedom.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well; and to unite with his sister

Ideals: Athletic, Joker. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 390 gp.