Description: An older woman who wears a grey shirt with thin green vertical stripes and grey pants, she is not a threatening figure. Her golden hair is singed and shortened. Her blue eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She swings through moods quickly. One moment she is cool and collected, the next she is carried away by passions. She is ready at a moment's notice to give into her darker urges. She is a real pyromaniac and does not care who the fire hurts. She often ends up burning people alive in the fires she starts.

History: The child of northern immigrants she idolized her father. Balifra was born on a far northern desert where she grew up under the tutelage of her father, an expert Ruler. She would ruin relationships and cause injury. She was reprimanded several times before being given her current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: She will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact.

Ideals: Passionate. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Criminal record, Immigrant. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 230 gp.

Description: This slender man stands about 5'10". He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. His black hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a wide-brimmed hat. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He is shy and timid. He has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. Sammal is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his brothers into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. His mother disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his mother, he was betrayed dozens of times. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Roofer they were divorced and he won custody of their daughter. He worked as a Fisher, and he later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and wants to raise his children well

Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 210 gp.

Description: She wears a tan vest and prefers yellow and tan shirts. Her boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. She has relatively light skin and is very physically imposing due to her abundance of muscles. Her head has been shaved. Her fierce gray eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. She also is a firm believer in the womanly ideal.

History: When she was but 5 years old her parents immigrated from the east. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Glassblower hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: To prove her worth to the world; and wants her loneliness to end

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Immigrant, Poor. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 190 gp. 1 Breastplate.

Description: This woman wears a worn and beaten armor, and sports empty pouches on her belt. She wears a top hat to hide her balding. Her blue eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She constantly seizes attention wherever she goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. She likes to think of herself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. A few years later when the south was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and she doesn't get along with people that don't share her tastes

Ideals: Philantrophist, Impeccable, Optimist. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 4000 gp. Freshwater pearl (4 gp). Alexandrite (900 gp). Eye agate (4 gp). Zircon (40 gp). Fire opal (1600 gp). Peridot (40 gp). Moonstone (40 gp). White pearl (60 gp). Eye agate (4 gp). Deep green spinel (60 gp). Aquamarine (900 gp).

Description: The woman speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. She seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if she got out from a pool a few moments ago. She tends to wear a large grey jacket. She has done her best to style her black hair to look like a famous performer. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She resents people who mock her appearance or her, so she has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. She is an amazing painter.

History: When she was but 6 years old her parents immigrated from the west. Her family was turned out during the war. She and her family wandered west to less war torn lands. She now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the west; and she's looking for her big break

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, PTSD. Bonds: Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 160 gp. Moonstone (70 gp).