Description: He wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. His long silver hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. His father disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his father, he was betrayed dozens of times. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Beggar and was forced into it by his family; and to reunite with his absent father

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Forgetful. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Family. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He sports brown clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. He is bald on top and has large chestnut tufts of hair around his ears. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines hazel.

Personality: He is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. He lacks moral complications. He does what he is told to by employers but not much else. He spends his money on whatever he fancies at the time.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. Like his mother and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Spice Merchant. He has worked as a Spice Merchant like his mother before him.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Job, Military. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 1900 gp. Star ruby (1300 gp). Onyx (60 gp). Lapis lazuli (12 gp). Coral (50 gp). Alexandrite (400 gp). Tourmaline (50 gp). Black pearl (400 gp).

Description: This tall, slender man prefers to wear white pants and tee shirts. He wears his chestnut hair down. He is baby faced.

Personality: Calm and collected, he is a well trained Shepherd. Ar-Karo enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. His childhood dream was to be a Adventurer, but he was a colossal failure. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and to be a adventurer again

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 600 gp.

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She wears bulky red painted plate armor. She wears her black hair up in a very large beehive style do. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. She loves teas. She is very sensitive about her face. To blow off anger she lifts weights and to control her otherwise explosive temper she works out a lot.

History: She was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family Since her father passed away years ago, her mother had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She would ruin relationships and cause injury. She was reprimanded several times before being given her current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: She has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day; and a rival would like her out of the picture

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Guardian, Criminal record. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: She is of a modest build and height, but she carries herself more imposing than she is. She wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized black coat. She keeps her long brass crest kept up in a rat tail. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. She is a ruthless business woman, a trait she acquired from her mother.

History: Born to a Ruler, her mother struggled to pay the bills. Being born in the west, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the west for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way east. She has been saving her money to try and buy her sister's freedom.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion; and marry her sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Terse. Bonds: Poor, Family. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 100 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (100 gp).

Description: This slender man stands about 4'0". He wears silk and lounges about seductively. His hair is always cut to a buzz. This brown eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He is a very happy person and has lots of energy. To put it simply, he's a very lovable idiot. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 4000 gp. Tiger eye turquoise (13 gp). Alexandrite (1200 gp). Red spinel (140 gp). Chrysoprase (60 gp). Eye agate (13 gp). Jet (140 gp). Black pearl (1200 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This younger middle-aged man tends to wear a tan poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt, and a wedding ring on his left hand. His blonde hair has been sun bleached extensively. His fierce hazel eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He is a man who does what he needs to. He will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. He is kind towards other men and children and will generally offer men help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to him.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. He found a children's book about a Gnome Bard who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. He modeled his life after the story, seeing himself destined a hero. He became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: In love, Criminal record, Adventurer. Occupation: Shepherd

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

Possessions: 340 gp. White pearl (130 gp). Moss agate (6 gp). 1 Half-Plate.