Description: An imposing woman with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic right leg, she wears a simple red robe with green stripes complete with hood. Her hair is cut close to her head. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She runs her personal life as if detached from it. She organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits she will get from it. Stacee enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. Her father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her father was legitimate. 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: Marry her brother to traveling adventurers.

Flaws: Selfish, Hedonist. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: Rhodochrosite (16 gp). Malachite (16 gp). Lapis lazuli (16 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy auburn stubble. She is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing black cape and mantle trimmed with soft brown waves gently in the breeze. She has a hunchback. She has shaved her head bald. Her violet eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She is business-like. She takes instructions and follows them to the letter. She is a great chef.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Apothecary arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. After coming to the age of reason, Gorga took it upon herself to study the arcane arts in their entirety; because of this, she was labeled a dark omen and banished from her homeland. She was granted arcane powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: She is greedy; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Professionalism, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 600 gp.

Description: He wears a worn and beaten armor. He has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. His hair is dark red and curly. His gold eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. He is cautious and jumpy. He reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Thamuz was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. In his 20th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his father impaled in their home, and his mother beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: Meet up once more with his childhood friend; and retire the richest man in the west

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy, Fearful. Bonds: Mentor, Adventurer. Occupation: Server

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: Hematite (8 gp). Banded agate (8 gp). Aquamarine (300 gp). Black star sapphire (1500 gp). Deep blue spinel (300 gp). Freshwater pearl (8 gp). Obsidian (8 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This younger middle-aged woman wears suspenders and blue workpants. Her shirt is black, and she wears a heavy blue leather apron most of the time, and a wedding ring on her left hand. Her silver hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. She has gleaming, smiling violet eyes.

Personality: Quillathe is depressed about a lot of things. She tends to be a nihilist. The occasional robbery is her preferred attention getting crime, but she mainly uses her means for meeting her own perverse desires.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. Being born in the south, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the south for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way north. She would ruin relationships and cause injury. She was reprimanded several times before being given her current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and she feels kind of lost in life

Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: In love, Criminal record, Nature, Family. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 600 pp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (600 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (130 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (700 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (5000 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (600 gp). Finely wrought small gold bracelet (80 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He sports tan clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. He carries with him a set of lances on his belt, each one with a sapphire on the hilt. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His fierce blue eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He is fixated on the number 33. He counts his steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. He seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. He is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Barrister hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. He has worked as a Barrister like his father before him.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Criminal record, Poor, Job. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 140 gp. 1 Darkwood Buckler.