Description: This dark-skinned female is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. She is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. Her blonde hair is long and unkept. Her gray eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: She is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. She is an amazing painter.

History: Theirastra was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her father gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her father, who blamed her for driving them apart. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He wears a blue coat over a black low-cut shirt, and a small hat upon his head. His red hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. He is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: Gennal hails from a village terrorized by giants. 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 Sculptor. He tends to his Sculptor job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: He wants revenge against giants; and to be a shoemaker again

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Enemies, Job. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 200 sp.

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She is generally shirtless and showing off her tattooed chest. She has dyed her greying black hair a little too much giving a sharp black color. Her eyes are red and catlike.

Personality: She is a melancholic, but persistent worker. She resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. She works hard and plays hard.

History: Sekhmet was born into a poor family. Growing up, she dreamt of becoming a Paladin, to bring honor to her family’s name. When she came of age, she applied for a position with her town's local guard, looking to work her way up via merit and eventually become a Paladin in service of a powerful lord somewhere. She found a children's book about a Tiefling Paladin who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. She modeled her life after the story, seeing herself destined a hero. She became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: She has passion for adventuring and risk; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Flaws: Depressed, Hedonist. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 6000 sp.

Description: She wears rags and sports a simple walking cane, and carries flails. She wears a top hat to hide her balding. She has amber eyes.

Personality: She is a hateful person. She taunts others and blames them for her problems. She is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. She haggles over everything, upselling her goods and buying cheap. She is persistent in everything.

History: The child of a Shipwright, who enjoyed hunting, Nurkara was taken on many hunting expeditions. She was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. She has became unsatisfied with her lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and she has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 500 gp. Jacinth (4000 gp). Violet garnet (900 gp). Chrysoprase (50 gp). Deep green spinel (40 gp). Carnelian (50 gp).

Description: He is a mite stocky and wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty tan coat over it. He keeps his long white hair kept up in a rat tail. His blue eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. He is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with his old comrades. He has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: A child with a great deal of dancing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. Being born in the north, 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 north 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 east. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 50 pp. Rock crystal (80 gp). Moss agate (6 gp). Tourmaline (160 gp). Peridot (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This southern woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. Her silver hair is braided into rings. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food she seems plenty friendly. She is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: She got into the Mason business at a young age. She was an apprentice working in her father's forge. She would ruin relationships and cause injury. She was reprimanded several times before being given her current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: Seeks redemption.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 3000 gp. Solid gold idol (600 gp). Gold music box (4000 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (170 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (300 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She appears as an extremely gaunt Halfling, and stands approximately 3'2". She is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Spice Merchant, and her gloved hand is found clutching a quarterstaff. Her hair is long and black with streaks of red, and is pulled back with small white clips. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Tyna is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: She was born in the north, but her parents moved at a very young age to the south. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Halflings in the north were limited. After a long history of fighting, Tyna and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and she is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Persistence, Justice. Flaws: Insane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 140 gp.