Description: A woman of a pale complexion, she wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her pickaxe with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. Her black hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She is not truly malevolent, but she is obsessed with poetry. She constantly tries to fill her life with poetry. Emeny enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. She made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. When she grew older, she became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. She began work as a mercenary for hire. She would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: She will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact; and meet up once more with her childhood friend

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 160 gp. Freshwater pearl (5 gp). 2 Acid flasks.

Description: He is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright green and blue, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. He wears a deerstalker hat to hide his balding. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He is shy and timid. He has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. He is a bit of a macho man and will challenge people to random contests of strength and skill, and invite them to random hunting and fishing trip.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. When he was little, his rather wealthy family often ventured across the island to a summer home near a old dungeon. He would wander through that old dungeon and adventure through it for days. One day while adventuring a terrible storm took place and he was stranded inside. His family spent the next few days looking for him, and could only assume he was dead when it came time to leave. The family never returned to the island due to the painful memories there. Oriax took refuge in the old dungeon and found the beat up shortbow and armor he uses now. He hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west.

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insomniac, Shy. Bonds: Rich, Nature. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 2100 gp. Jeweled anklet (2000 gp). Jeweled anklet (2000 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (40 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (2000 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. He carries a battered kukri and tarnished club as well. His hair is always cut to a buzz. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He seems absolutely devoid of it. He stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: Heir to a fortune, his parents put a great deal of effort into curing his disease. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. 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: He has money and likes to spend it; and money/treasure

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Mundane, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 300 gp. 3 Tanglefoot bags. 1 Everburning torch.

Description: This western woman is abnormally tall. She tends to wear a black poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt. Her whole body is exceptionally muscular. She has blonde hair. Her ears are large.

Personality: She speaks before she thinks and is too direct. She is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of her. She is by nature obliging.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. Ownka was born on a far western plains where she grew up under the tutelage of her mother, an expert Navigator. She left for the west, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: To prove her worth to the world; and she desires power and/or immortality

Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive, Shy. Bonds: Immigrant, Mentor. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 500 gp. Red spinel (140 gp).

Description: She wears light armors faded through time and improper care. Her hair is chestnut and very short. Her green eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She is someone who is used to having a large amount of sex appeal. She also lacks a concept of privacy and shares just about everything. She is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She got away from her former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and she wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away

Flaws: Addict, Selfish. Bonds: Attractive, Poor. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 200 sp.

Description: This man is dressed in an above average manner. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His hazel eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the north. He works hard and plays hard.

History: Gerald was born in the north. At a young age he loved to build and create. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and he desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Pacifist, Persistence. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 2000 gp. Banded agate (15 gp). White pearl (80 gp). Jade (80 gp). Emerald (1100 gp). Pink pearl (80 gp). Jasper (70 gp). Deep blue spinel (1200 gp). Brown-green garnet (80 gp). Jet (80 gp). Bloodstone (70 gp). Jade (80 gp).

Description: This light-skinned male wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty tan coat over it. He is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. He sports a long golden beard, and similarly colored long hair. He has several tiny amethyst earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He invites people to come help in his community garden.

History: The child of western immigrants he idolized his mother. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He left for the west, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and to be a barkeep again

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 46000 sp. Chrysoberyl (90 gp). Brown-green garnet (90 gp). Sard (50 gp). 1 Everburning torch. 1 Holy water. 1 Antitoxin.