Description: A woman of a pale complexion, she wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her fur is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: She was born at the edge of vast plains. She has had some formal dancing training, and achieved minor success. She has never given up on her dancing dream.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and retire the richest woman in the west

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 1 Half-Plate.

Description: Her right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise she appears quite healthy. She is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. Her red hair is wavy and long. Her amber eyes peer out from beneath her top yellow hat.

Personality: She has two modes she varies between. On the job she is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job she is a party animal. She enjoys reading and quiet.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. Like her mother and her brother before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Animal Trainer. In the meantime she has taken over work as a Animal Trainer and occasionally as a mercenary.

Motivation: She desires power and/or immortality.

Ideals: Logical. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 4000 sp.

Description: He typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep green leather and dull brown iron scale mail, and he perpetually has his rapier ready. His silver crest is long and unkept. His gold eyes are slightly larger than normal.

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. Rivaan is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his sisters into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: He comes from a rich eastern family. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister; and marry his sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Rich. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 500 pp. Gold music box (4000 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (160 gp). Jeweled anklet (4000 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (160 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (160 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. Her red hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She misses her glory days as an athlete. She does not mind her job, but it is boring in comparison. She is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform She left for the south, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found; and marry her sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Immigrant, Slave, Family. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He stands about 5'4" and prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. He carries his fan with him everywhere and carries himself as the perfect gentleman. His right hand appears badly burned and disfigured. His hair is brown, silky, and of moderate length. His blue eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He is someone who is used to having a large amount of sex appeal. He also lacks a concept of privacy and shares just about everything. He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Lance grew up listening to his father's many stories. A few years later when the south was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She is a mite stocky and is wearing a long, tan, dusty cloak. Her tied-back hair is auburn. Her eyes are green and beady.

Personality: She's a bit of a prankster. She knows she is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. 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: Her martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. She was an apprentice working in her mother's forge. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: She wants to meet her childhood hero; and wants her loneliness to end

Ideals: Joker, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: This slender man stands about 6'5". He wears a fine chain shirt which he covers with grey colored cloaks and clothing. He has shaved his head bald. His fierce green eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Humans in the west were limited. He spent several years traveling with his friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: He feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world; and meet up once more with his childhood friend

Ideals: Professionalism, Impeccable. Bonds: Adventurer, Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 5000 cp.