Description: This slender woman stands about 4'9". She wears a blue collared shirt and tan skirt. She accessorizes with a red scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across her shirt. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. She has several tiny topaz earrings on each ear.

Personality: She is cool and collected. She likes to make quips and puns whenever she does anything. She also makes a point to compliment her superiors and flatter them. She works hard and plays hard.

History: Theirastra was raised in a hard working conservative environment. She sought a place where she would be rewarded solely on the merits of her skills. This search led her directly into Unemployed work with an outfit from a few towns over. Unemployed work suited her well, and with each successful project, she earned more gold and more respect from her peers. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the west; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Disciplined, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 3000 cp.

Description: She is a paragon of her species. She is larger and stronger than most Halflings. Her skin is dark but she possesses many tan ritualistic tattoos. She is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. Her brown hair is still thick. Her skin is flawless and her gray eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: She is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as she rather likes the sound of her voice. Her demeanor is somewhat feminine. She is a bit of a macho woman and will challenge people to random contests of strength and skill, and invite them to random hunting and fishing trip.

History: Philomena was born the youngest of three triplets. When she was little, her rather wealthy family often ventured across the mountains to a summer home near a old dungeon. She would wander through that old dungeon 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 mountains due to the painful memories there. Philomena took refuge in the old dungeon and found the beat up greataxe and armor she uses now. Since then, she has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister

Ideals: Optimist, Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Family. Occupation: Miner

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 400 gp. Brown-green garnet (80 gp). Violet garnet (700 gp). Red spinel (80 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: This man wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates his frame. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized amethyst on his left hand. He has shaved his head bald. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. Before the accident, he was one of the most outspoken anti-Tiefling activists. He was mortally wounded, saved by a kind and fast-acting Tiefling doctor. After months of barely getting by, Paelias managed to ambush a major caravan with a load of valuables. Instantly wealthy, he made his way to the capital under a new identity.

Motivation: A strong sense of loyalty to Tiefling people; and he is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions

Ideals: Gifted, Fighting. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 300 gp. Sardonyx (80 gp). Violet garnet (1300 gp). Red garnet (70 gp).

Description: This woman is very fat, and wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with black lining and desert motifs. Her crest is copper and very short. Her eyes are likewise gold.

Personality: Here is a woman who knows she is the smartest in the room. She talks down to others constantly. She uses divination through singing.

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. Her parents enrolled her in a Fighter school at a young age so that she could practice her martial talents. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for her; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Impeccable, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Insomniac. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (700 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (700 gp).

Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she wears silk and lounges about seductively. She wears her black fur up. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. She is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: Gifted from a young age, Gale studied abroad. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. Recently a tribe of orcs attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Gale fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and money/treasure

Ideals: Justice, Gifted, Fighting. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: This fat eastern man has a bulbous nose and wears suspenders and blue workpants. His shirt is brown, and he wears a heavy blue leather apron most of the time. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His red hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He is happy with his job as a Fisher. He turns his eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: The child of a Dilettante, who enjoyed hunting, Erevan was taken on many hunting expeditions. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Fisher. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Fisher for the past few years.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and to prove his worth to the world

Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Job, Rich, Nature. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 2000 cp.

Description: He is a husky man, who is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing tan cape and mantle trimmed with soft brown waves gently in the breeze. He has dyed his greying golden hair a little too much giving a sharp golden color. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He is a sleazy, sleazy guy. He has no qualms about using his powers of suggestion to get people to do what he wants. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. Being born in the south, 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 south 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 west. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Professionalism. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Military, Family. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 200 gp. Rose (80 gp). Deep blue spinel (400 gp). Aquamarine (400 gp).