Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her tied-back hair is blonde. Her eyes are violet and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She runs her personal life as if detached from it. She organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits she will get from it. Emmeline enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the west; and to pay off her debts

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Athletic. Flaws: Selfish, Hedonist. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 500 gp. Malachite (7 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she wears baggy tan pantaloons and a white scarf. Her black hair has been sun bleached extensively. Her eyes are hazel and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She is mildly Gnome supremacist, though she does not identify as such. 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: Gifted from a young age, Ellyjoybell studied abroad. She found a children's book about a Gnome Adept 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 hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: She made a deal with a demon which lead to her current lot in life, and she's becoming increasingly nervous about it; and to reunite with her old friends

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Racist, Disease. Bonds: Adventurer, Debt. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 280 gp. A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (140 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (600 gp). 1 Thunderstones.

Description: This southern woman wears tattered old clothes. Her clothes are grease stained in places. She wears her blonde hair up in a very large beehive style do. Her amber eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, she has a hard time making friends. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. Through the years after Jarsali was born, her father became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the south. Jarsali's father didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. After a long history of fighting, Jarsali and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions; and she's repulsed by the pc

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Religious. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 1700 sp.

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He wears well tailored suits and hats with beautiful decoration. He is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. His silver hair is greasy and uncared for. His eyes are hazel and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He also has developed a complete distrust of the Assassin profession.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions.

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Guardian, Job, Religious. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 100 gp. Jasper (20 gp). 1 Spyglass. 1 Bullseye lantern. 1 Hourglass.

Description: This woman is wearing a long, brown, dusty cloak. She is muscular with a powerful set of arms. She has dyed her greying brown hair a little too much giving a sharp brown color. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from her. She is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Dwarf in existence. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Dwarves in the east were limited. She hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: Wants her loneliness to end; and she would like to get married and retire

Ideals: Justice, Gifted. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Has a crush. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 50 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). 1 Average lock.

Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking western young adult. She wears well tailored gowns and hats with beautiful decoration. She is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. With bright chestnut hair. Her amber eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: Calm and collected, she is a well trained Carpenter. She lacks restraint and is impulsive. She jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Lagazi was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. She was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: To be a Tanner again; and she is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out

Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Rich, Slave, Job, Mentor. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 150 pp. Red spinel (90 gp). Freshwater pearl (6 gp). Zircon (70 gp). Azurite (6 gp). Eye agate (6 gp). Moss agate (6 gp). Bloodstone (70 gp).

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears skinny pants and wears a black and grey robe with the hood down. He has done his best to style his dark red hair to look like a famous performer. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He disdains his fellow westerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: He was born in a small mountains village. His father took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. He now spends his time doing works of charity.

Motivation: Dragonborn compassion.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Immigrant, Nature. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 1100 gp. Sard (30 gp). Deep blue spinel (1400 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1400 gp). Jet (70 gp).