Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She wears long strands of topaz and short green dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. Her red crest is braided into rings. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: Hethress is a sociable creature first and foremost. She loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. She can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage daughter.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Mayor arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Being born in the west, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the west for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way south. She has been saving her money to try and buy her sister's freedom.

Motivation: To unite with her sister; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Ideals: Athletic, Extrovert, Logical. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 1600 sp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (300 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (300 gp).

Description: She is dressed in an above average manner. She wears her blonde hair up in a very large beehive style do. She has amber eyes.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She enjoys reading and quiet.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. She made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. She became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and to reunite with her old friends

Ideals: Philantrophist, Logical. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 900 pp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (1200 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (90 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (500 gp). Solid gold idol (1200 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (5000 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (1000 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (500 gp). Gold and ruby ring (4000 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). Carved bone or ivory statuette (20 gp). Carved bone or ivory statuette (20 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (500 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A 4'2" northern woman, she wears suspenders and brown workpants. Her shirt is blue, and she wears a heavy brown leather apron most of the time. Her silver hair is smooth and relatively long. Her hazel eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: She speaks before she thinks and is too direct. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: Her divine talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. At a young age she wooed the heart of her future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 11 years.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: In love, Job, Family. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 8000 sp.

Description: He is a husky man, who is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His fur, while still mostly white, has prominent grey streaks. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He is a man who does what he needs to. He will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. More though he will beg to come along on any journeys. He will attempt to stowaway on any ship he can in the hopes that it will get him further away.

History: Lone was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. Being a Bounty Hunter kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he has decided he is irredeemable

Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Slave, Job, Rich. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 210 gp. White pearl (50 gp). 1 Everburning torch.

Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she typically wears white cloth garments or leather armor. Her brown hair is heavily combed to the left. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: Nora is depressed about a lot of things. She tends to be a nihilist. She invites people to come help in her community garden.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her father always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. 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 feels kind of lost in life; and 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

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Insomniac, Depressed, Antagonistic. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 5000 cp. Sardonyx (60 gp).

Description: She stands about 5'11" and wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. Her right hand appears badly burned and disfigured. She wears a wide-brimmed hat to hide her balding. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She acts crazy and hedonistic. She has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: Her divine talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. After coming to the age of reason, Decarabia took it upon herself to study the divine arts in their entirety; because of this, she was labeled a dark omen and banished from her homeland. She was granted divine powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and to unite with her brother

Ideals: Justice, Gifted. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 26000 cp. Solid gold idol (800 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1100 gp). 2 Antitoxin. 4 Alchemist’s fire. 2 Acid flasks. 3 Smokesticks.

Description: An older woman who wears tattered old clothes, she is not a threatening figure. She has styled her silver hair well, parting it to the right. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are green.

Personality: She is fixated on the number 53. She counts her steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. She seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. She moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep her interest for a month it is impressive.

History: When she was but 6 years old her parents immigrated from the west. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Elves in the west were limited. She is searching for what she claims is her rightful reward.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Gnomish artifacts is her passion; and she desires power and/or immortality

Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Hedonist. Bonds: Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 14000 cp.