Description: She wears green leather gloves, a green jacket, and tight pants. She is portly but not overly obese. Her white hair is knotted and matted. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She considers herself a woman of culture and sophistication. She likes a good challenge to her wits. She has a small toy that she constantly fidgets with.

History: The child of a Barber, who enjoyed hunting, Ishte was taken on many hunting expeditions. Ishte abandoned her home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. She survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. She did whatever it took for her to survive. She's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and meet up once more with her childhood friend

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Nature, Adventurer, In love. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 4000 sp. Deep blue spinel (1200 gp). Red garnet (150 gp). Star rose quartz (60 gp). Deep blue spinel (1200 gp). Chalcedony (60 gp).

Description: He stands about 6'3" and wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his dagger with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. His left leg appears badly burned and disfigured. His dark red hair is matted, messy, and big. His ears are large.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing painting.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered painting. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: To end his boredom; and to find somewhere to settle down

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Sensitive, Mundane. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 300 sp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: She is a husky woman, who wears a tight fitting black shirt and pants. Her black hair is smooth and relatively long. This white eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She considers herself a woman of culture and sophistication. She likes a good challenge to her wits. She spends most of her days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There she gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: Vepar hails from a village terrorized by dire rats. She took after her mother in leading caravans. Because they were valued, her mother taught her to defend herself. When her mother died while fighting dire rats, the young Vepar began to lead the lost caravan. She has dedicated herself to building a better trade route.

Motivation: She loathes her own lifestyle; and she desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Impeccable, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: This slender woman stands about 5'7". She dresses well, wearing yellow shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time. Her brown hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. Her brown eyes peer out from beneath her small yellow hat.

Personality: Cocky and sure of herself, she believes she is the best Locksmith born in the past three hundred years. She has a habit of throwing herself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. She helped her father out around the business and became quite the natural. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Locksmith responsibilities is difficult; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Slave. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 300 gp. Alexandrite (800 gp). Sard (80 gp). Eye agate (15 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears a grey vest with golden trim over her white shirt. Her black leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and her grey boots flare out at the collars. She has a long white ponytail with little hanging trinkets. Her eyes are green and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Melissa embodies much of what other species detest in the Humans. She will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her father always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. Her mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her mother was legitimate. She eventually got the idea of being the protector of her homeland from reading books, and has made it her duty.

Motivation: Her religion dominates her actions; and to protect her home

Flaws: Antagonistic, Impulsive. Bonds: Religious, Guardian. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 5000 cp. 1 Darkwood Buckler.