Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). Her hair is always cut to a buzz. Her eyes are blue and catlike.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: She was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for her. It may also be what makes her so good at details. She went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. She hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Poor, Religious. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 4000 gp. Embroidered and bejeweled glove (2000 gp). Gold cup set with emeralds (3000 gp). A delicate silver chain set with a tourmaline (100 gp). Jeweled gold crown (6000 gp). Solid gold idol (1100 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1600 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1600 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a mite stocky and wears professional attire. His long silver hair reaches down to his waist. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic man, Osco's first love is himself. His second love is also himself. He is obsessed with his god.

History: He was born in a small desert village. Being born in the west, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the west for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way north. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions.

Ideals: Impeccable. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Nature, Family. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 400 gp. Black pearl (800 gp). Moonstone (80 gp).

Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic right hand, he is wearing a long, black, dusty cloak. His crest, while still mostly gold, has prominent grey streaks. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. Salasar enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: The child of a Painter, who enjoyed hunting, Salasar was taken on many hunting expeditions. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 5 years.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 1500 gp. Chrysoprase (60 gp). Bloodstone (60 gp). Malachite (12 gp). Star rose quartz (60 gp).

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. She wears a colorful flower in her golden hair. Her half smiles and brown eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: She speaks before she thinks and is too direct. She uses divination through singing.

History: Born in the east to a Navigator, Lezre learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. She graduated from the Naval Academy and went to see the world at the rank of Ensign. She advanced relatively quickly due to her good work ethic, understanding of the chain of command, and natural leadership ability. She's also a talented Priest, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Military. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 90 pp.

Description: A middle-aged woman, she wears a tan shirt, with a violet mid length skirt with violet tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them, and is pretty ugly. Her tied-back hair is auburn. Her amber unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She believes mankind has become decadent and spoiled by the march of civilization and an end should come to life as we know it. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her writing with anyone who is interested.

History: A child with a great deal of writing talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Nature, Family. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: The man speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. He seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if he got out from a pool a few moments ago. He wears a tattered pair of loose blue pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. With a patchy brown beard and wild brown hair. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He is a jovial happy person, but he is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage son.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. Varis was born on a far northern mountains where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Crown-heir. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Regain custody of his son.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: Finely wrought small gold bracelet (100 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1700 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (5000 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (140 gp). Solid gold idol (200 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He typically wears brown cloth garments or leather armor. He is portly but not overly obese. His red hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. His eyes are likewise brown. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He exudes charisma. He is a tour de force of persuasion. He is fiercely devoted to his mother, and views his mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-sister.

History: Roger was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He sought a place where he would be rewarded solely on the merits of his skills. This search led him directly into Seamstress work with an outfit from a few towns over. Seamstress work suited him well, and with each successful project, he earned more gold and more respect from his peers. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Seamstress for hire.

Motivation: Marry his sister to traveling adventurers.

Bonds: Attractive, Family, Job. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 130 pp.