Description: She is a pot bellied eastern woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She wears bulky blue painted plate armor. Her blonde hair is still thick. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

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. She is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her mother. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Althaea grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Althaea. She used her abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: She has decided she is irredeemable.

Ideals: Athletic, Fighting. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 800 sp. Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (90 gp).

Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she wears a tattered pair of loose white pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. She has no hair. She tend to wears goggles to shield her eyes.

Personality: She has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Ruler who has hired her part-time. More though she will beg to come along on any journeys. She will attempt to stowaway on any ship she can in the hopes that it will get her further away.

History: Her mother raised her in a mountain cabin. Her father took her hunting and taught her how to get in the mind of other creatures. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To settle down with her crush.

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Has a crush, Slave, Nature. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 2600 sp.

Description: She very much looks the part of a Merchant. She has a very tight haircut. Her eyes are a pleasant hazel.

Personality: She is quite rude, and likes to deride her opponents skill and shout insults at them. She is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes her no end of embarrassment.

History: She was raised by priests from a young age. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her mother gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her mother, who blamed her for driving them apart. She has achieved small success as a Merchant.

Motivation: Expand her business; and further expansion of business

Flaws: Antagonistic, Forgetful. Bonds: Job, Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He has a large green mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into his black robe. He has wavy silver hair. His gold eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He takes great joy in being the best Painter in town.

History: A powerful necromancer made him what he is. A few years later when the east was not economically sound they moved to his current location. After a long history of fighting, Paymon and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Job, Mentor. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 2000 gp. Rich purple corundum (900 gp). Azurite (13 gp). Citrine (60 gp). Fire opal (900 gp). Sardonyx (60 gp). Aquamarine (1300 gp). Brown-green garnet (90 gp). Red spinel (90 gp). White pearl (90 gp). Black pearl (1300 gp). Rich purple corundum (900 gp). Black pearl (1300 gp). Hematite (13 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is an average looking southern male in his early mid-life. He wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. His auburn hair, when down, is lengthy. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are green.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He invented a lineage for himself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. His first spouse was a Masseuse, they had one daughter, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. Lacking all sense, he decided to go on an adventure. He picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: Marry his sister to traveling adventurers; and he desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist. Bonds: Adventurer, Military, Family. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 90000 cp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (300 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (120 gp).