Description: A middle-aged woman, she is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time, and is pretty ugly. Her fur is short and beige. She has gleaming, smiling green eyes.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes brigands are coming to abduct people. She is obsessed with her god.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. Her mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her mother was legitimate. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by brigands. Gale was horrified and prayed that her mother was alright. However, she heard that her mother had died fighting off the brigands.

Motivation: Many brigands want her driven away; and her religion dominates her actions

Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Mundane. Bonds: Enemies, Religious. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 4000 sp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (1100 gp).

Description: She is wearing a long, brown, dusty cloak. She carries a battered shortbow and tarnished scimitar as well. She wears a colorful flower in her golden hair. Her amber eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: Kilia is a sociable creature first and foremost. She loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. She can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. She has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: Kilia was born with her mother's beautiful face. Kilia was born on a far eastern desert where she grew up under the tutelage of her mother, an expert Weaver. Lacking all sense, she decided to go on an adventure. She picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends; and meet up once more with her childhood friend

Ideals: Fighting, Extrovert. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 300 sp.

Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured. Her gold crest is lengthy. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: Uadjit speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. She is clearly well-traveled and educated. She is an amazing painter.

History: A child with a great deal of music talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. She worked as a nervous Shoemaker and found it very stressful. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Athletic, Impeccable, Gifted, Artistic. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 5000 cp. Azurite (12 gp).

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He is dressed in an above average manner. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His gray eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. Korag enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Born in the east his family was never financially stable. 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 Butcher. He became a Butcher soon after.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Butcher responsibilities is difficult; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Poor. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 200 gp. Golden yellow topaz (1300 gp). Deep blue spinel (1300 gp). Hematite (13 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (13 gp).

Description: The dark-skinned man stands 5'3" and wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with tan lining and desert motifs. He has silver hair. His eyes are brown and catlike.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. He has a small toy that he constantly fidgets with.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He found a children's book about a Elf Monk who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. He modeled his life after the story, seeing himself destined a hero. 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: Retire the richest man in the west; and he has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy, Addict. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 300 sp.