Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing red cape and mantle trimmed with soft black waves gently in the breeze. Her moppish brown hair is in a traditional bowl cut. Her fierce blue eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She is a woman who does what she needs to. She will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. She is a ruthless business woman, a trait she acquired from her mother.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Her psionic abilities were realized during a raid on her village. She used her abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and a rival would like her out of the picture

Ideals: Athletic, Entrepeneur, Gifted. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 290 gp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: She is an average looking eastern female in her early mid-life. She is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured. Her brown hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. She has a dull look in her black eyes.

Personality: While she is on the job, she is grim and serious. She understands how dangerous the world is and the need to stay safe. She has all her life been fascinated with poetry.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Vepar grew up listening to her father's many stories. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Vepar grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Vepar. She left for the east, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: She feels the way she acts is they only way to get by in the world; and she doesn't get along with people that don't share her tastes

Ideals: Artistic, Impeccable. Bonds: Criminal record, Adventurer, Immigrant. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 400 gp. Deep blue spinel (1100 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with her rolled up shirt sleeves this gives her a very relaxed look. She cuts an attractive figure and her suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. She wears a deerstalker hat to cover her moderate length auburn hair. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

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. Her brief stint in the army gave her the idea she was invincible and that she is the toughest woman alive.

History: Meriele lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Half-Elves in the south were limited. She struck the Bather job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: Regain custody of her daughter; and wants to open a new tavern

Bonds: Attractive, Job, Military, Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 130 gp. Bloodstone (20 gp). Red garnet (150 gp).

Description: He dresses like a well dressed Weaver does, and he perpetually has his spear ready. He wears his white hair up. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He considers himself a man of culture and sophistication. He likes a good challenge to his wits. He is underhanded and not above using his wealth and body to get others to do his bidding.

History: Mantus was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his father was employed at, doing general labor. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. Recently a tribe of dire rats attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Mantus fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Expand his business.

Ideals: Fighting, Impeccable. Bonds: Job, Attractive, Poor. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 10000 gp. Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (170 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (100 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (170 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (600 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (500 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (100 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (170 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1800 gp). Solid gold idol (500 gp).

Description: She wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with black lining and desert motifs. Her chestnut hair is smooth and relatively long. Her half smiles and black eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: She is a very philanthropic person; she spends her free time working at various soup kitchens. She is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a son. She used her abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and she seems to be bored by most things

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Lazy. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, In love. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 400 gp. Chalcedony (60 gp).

Description: This man is very fat, and wears a suit in poor condition. It has not been laundered in sometime and has been worn in activities one would not normally wear a suit during. His silver hair is unkempt and raggedy. His eyes are likewise green.

Personality: His voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl he speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of his tone. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage son.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Shipwright hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. He became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and doesn't want to be a shipwright and was forced into it by his family

Flaws: Ugly, Cynical. Bonds: Adventurer, Poor, Family. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 70 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She has a missing left arm. She dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over her head. Her long brown hair reaches down to her waist. She has several tiny sapphire earrings on each ear.

Personality: She speaks before she thinks and is too direct. She is harsh and unforgiving.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and she is greedy

Flaws: Impulsive, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Slave. Occupation: Server

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 150 pp. Malachite (4 gp). Freshwater pearl (4 gp).