Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She dresses well, wearing black shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time. Her white hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. Her silver eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: A deeply religious woman she believes everything happens for a reason. She takes great joy in being the best Slave Trader in town.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when drow swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. In her 15th year, her parents were killed by a drow raid, leaving Astaro alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 11 years.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job.

Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Religious, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 1000 gp. Finely wrought small gold bracelet (70 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (1000 gp).

Description: This late middle aged woman wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with blue lining and desert motifs and is in decent physical shape. She has dyed her greying red hair a little too much giving a sharp red color. Her fierce violet eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, she has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. She is cautious and jumpy. She reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: Shava was born the youngest of three triplets. When she was little, her rather wealthy family often ventured across the plains to a summer home near a large cave. She would wander through that large cave and adventure through it for days. One day while adventuring a terrible storm took place and she was stranded inside. Her family spent the next few days looking for her, and could only assume she was dead when it came time to leave. The family never returned to the plains due to the painful memories there. Shava took refuge in the large cave and found the beat up sword and armor she uses now. By chance she met her sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and doesn't want to be a spice merchant and was forced into it by her family

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Family, Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Everburning torch.

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. She has chestnut hair. Her eyes are likewise violet.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. She is underhanded and not above using her wealth and body to get others to do her bidding.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. She was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. She's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for her; and she desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: Violet garnet (1500 gp). Jasper (80 gp).

Description: She prefers to wear yellow pants and tee shirts, and she perpetually has her axe ready. She wears a colorful flower in her auburn hair. Her green eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Ahlyssa grew up listening to her mother's many stories. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: She desires power and/or immortality; and meet up once more with her childhood friend

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist, Joker. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 3000 sp.

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He has a large violet mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into his pastel robe. He wears his silver hair up in a very large beehive style do. His gray eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: Dayereth speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. He is clearly well-traveled and educated. As he has aged he has sought to do reparations for his actions as a youth. He is also making sure that his compatriots who never received punishment for their crimes are brought to justice.

History: His druidic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. Dayereth liked to wander the woods near his home when he was young, something he still likes to do at least once a week. He never liked modest clothing or shoes, so he would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and he developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. He has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day; and he doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes

Ideals: Impeccable, Justice, Gifted. Bonds: Criminal record, Nature. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 500 pp. 1 Medium magic item.