Description: Runty and weak-looking, he is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His golden hair is thinning but still full. His brown eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He trusts no one. He is not readily capable for forgiveness and his ire never leaves him. Flattery will make him almost putty in your hands.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the east. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Bookbinder hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. He's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC.

Flaws: Ugly, Addict, Antagonistic, Selfish. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: This fat eastern man has a bulbous nose and wears a tan vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His brown leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his tan boots flare out at the collars. His skin is also unnaturally pale. He keeps his long white hair kept up in a rat tail. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic man, Efferil's first love is himself. His second love is also himself. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Efferil was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. While he appears to be a normal Elf, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He was granted arcane powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: He doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes; and he is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Impeccable, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 4000 cp. 1 Chain shirt.

Description: A middle-aged man, he typically wears black cloth garments or leather armor, and is pretty ugly. His chestnut hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a feathered hat. His fierce black eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. Being born in the south, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the south for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way west. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Military, Family. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 8000 sp.

Description: He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time, and he perpetually has his whip ready. His golden hair is knotted and matted. His eyes are likewise blue.

Personality: Calm and collected, he is a well trained Fletcher. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: He was born in the east, but his parents moved at a very young age to the west. He always admired martial-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Fletcher.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 800 gp.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She is dressed in an above average manner. Her hair is golden and very short. Her violet eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk she knows how to make people feel guilty. She is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: She was born in the north. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Painter hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She has became unsatisfied with her lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: She desires power and/or immortality.

Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Adventurer, Immigrant. Occupation: Painter

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 30 gp.

Description: An older woman who likes to wear white tank tops with pastel skirt, she is not a threatening figure. She has slicked back white hair. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, she has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. She is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: Ootah lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. One day when Ootah was young, her father was sewing while trying to overcome the flu, when suddenly her father dropped to the ground dead. Her father had died from a severe disease that was unknown to the village doctor. Ootah was heart-stricken from the event, and her mother started working long hours to provde for them. She hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Insomniac, PTSD. Bonds: Military, Family. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 1700 gp. Jasper (30 gp). Moss agate (15 gp). Chrysoberyl (130 gp). Deep blue spinel (800 gp). Violet garnet (800 gp). Malachite (15 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A woman of a pale complexion, she wears light armors faded through time and improper care. Her Stetson hat is riddled with cuts and holes. This green eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She is cool and collected. She likes to make quips and puns whenever she does anything. She also makes a point to compliment her superiors and flatter them. Energy wise she seems alert and responsive.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Vaina was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the south; and she is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs

Ideals: Disciplined, Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 3 Alchemist’s fire.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She 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. She sports a flattop hair cut. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends she is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy herself. She dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. Her biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Drenna grew up listening to her father's many stories. Her family was turned out during the war. She and her family wandered east to less war torn lands. She became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: Meet up once more with her childhood friend.

Ideals: Joker, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, PTSD. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 200 gp. Black star sapphire (800 gp). 1 Half-Plate. 1 Banded mail. 1 Masterwork Light wooden shield. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His eyes are brown.

Personality: He hates Elves with a passion. As such he is filled with self loathing. He claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day he will do what he thinks is right.

History: Born in the west to a Seamstress, Quarion learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. His father was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. He has worked as a Seamstress like his father before him.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Justice, Persistence. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 200 gp. Coral (60 gp). Zircon (40 gp). Tourmaline (60 gp). Onyx (40 gp). Azurite (13 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.