Description: She stands about 5'0" and is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured. Her right leg appears badly burned and disfigured. Her black hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She is quiet and unassuming. She ignores others and carries on with her job unassumingly. She has all her life been fascinated with poetry.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Arara grew up listening to her father's many stories. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Mason.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 1600 gp. Solid gold idol (200 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (160 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (5000 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (160 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She has a large black mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into her tan robe. She has shaved her head bald. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: She speaks before she thinks and is too direct. She cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist she will grow angry at them.

History: The child of northern immigrants she idolized her father. She became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. She has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

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 a rival would like her out of the picture

Flaws: Impulsive, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: He wears a white shirt with thin violet vertical stripes and green pants. He has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. His brown hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. His green eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. Halander enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. He graduated from the Naval Academy and went to see the world at the rank of Ensign. He advanced relatively quickly due to his good work ethic, understanding of the chain of command, and natural leadership ability. He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and money/treasure

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Addict, Hedonist. Bonds: Rich, Military. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 800 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: The dark-skinned man stands 4'7" and dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. His silver hair and beard is wavy and long. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He goes out his way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one he won't accept into his heart. He refers to his adoptive mother for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: He was born in the south, but his parents moved at a very young age to the north. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his sons to still be retired.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found.

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 80000 cp.

Description: He typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep white leather and dull grey iron scale mail. He carries a battered hammer and tarnished rapier as well. He keeps his long red hair kept up in a rat tail. His hazel eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Professionalism, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This woman dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over her head. She is muscular with a powerful set of arms. She has done her best to style her silver hair to look like a famous performer. Her eyes are red.

Personality: She snorts whenever she laughs or is feeling confident. She spends most of her days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There she gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. She has dedicated herself to building a better kind of golem.

Motivation: She has passion for adventuring and risk; and she feels threatened by others

Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Adventurer, Nature, Mentor. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman is very fat, and wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with deerstalker hat. She has no crest. Her red eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. A fanatic, her devotion to her small selection of gods is unquestionable. She claims to be doing their will and will base all her actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: Born in the west her family was never financially stable. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Spice Merchant hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Spice Merchant.

Motivation: Her religion dominates her actions; and balancing her hectic life and new spice merchant responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Religious, Poor. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 1800 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.