Description: This woman stands a little under 5'6" and is a bit bulky. She is very muscular particularly in the legs. She wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her trident with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. Her hair is brown and curly. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: This woman loves writing and to teach people writing more than just about anything. She is an amazing painter.

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. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She used her abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by brigands, and she desires to right it; and she is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Criminal record, Enemies. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 40 gp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: He wears a green cloak and cross-gartered violet stockings. He is physically well-built. He wears his blue hair up. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. He takes great joy in being the best Merchant in town.

History: Gifted from a young age, Oriax studied abroad. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: To clean up the streets; and to protect his home

Ideals: Gifted, Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Guardian. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 18000 sp. Bloodstone (30 gp). Freshwater pearl (7 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with tan lining and desert motifs. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. He wears his silver hair up. His amber eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He pushes his goals aggressively. He is also a coward if confronted.

History: Nutae was born with his mother's beautiful face. He sought a place where he would be rewarded solely on the merits of his skills. This search led him directly into Courier work with an outfit from a few towns over. Courier work suited him well, and with each successful project, he earned more gold and more respect from his peers. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 14000 cp. 1 Breastplate. 1 Banded mail. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: This woman is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of her veins is visible when she is not flexing. Her shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for her due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. Her crest is brass and very short. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She likes to fabricate stories about her past exploits and how crazy she is, but in actuality she is rather bland. She feeds upon the attention of others.

History: Hillanot was born with her mother's beautiful face. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered painting. She has never given up on her painting dream.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Artistic. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a fancy white suit. He carries with him a set of lances, each one with a ruby on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His eyes are green and catlike.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. After a long history of fighting, Watson and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and retire the richest man in the west

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted, Joker, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 2000 gp. Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1800 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (100 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (200 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (200 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1800 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He has a missing right leg. He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. He is bald on top and has large blonde tufts of hair around his ears. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. His parents divorced when he was young, and his father gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his father, who blamed him for driving them apart. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and his religion dominates his actions

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 6000 sp.

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She dresses like a well dressed Masseuse does. With bright brown hair. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She is irascible and easily irritated. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: She was born in the south, but her parents moved at a very young age to the east. She always admired psionic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Masseuse responsibilities is difficult; and money/treasure

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: Just what you see.