Description: She is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. She is physically well-built. Her hair is black, silky, and of moderate length. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She is curt in most of her responses. She prefers to keep her word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. 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: She was born at the edge of vast forest. Kasdeya was a troubled youth. She spent her days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent her evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Kasdeya decided she wanted neither the life of her father nor that of the evil petty criminals she associated with. During her early adolescence, she took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. She has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: Seeks redemption.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Criminal record. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: She is a husky woman, who tends to wear a brown poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt. Her lavender fur is still thick. She has gleaming, smiling green eyes.

Personality: The woman has a huge range of feeling. She will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how she will be a better person from this day on. The occasional robbery is her preferred attention getting crime, but she mainly uses her means for meeting her own perverse desires.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Silent 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 Silent. Being a Mercenary kept her interest for a while, but then she became depressed and bored. So she turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: She is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs; and she has a rivalry with the church that dominates her actions

Flaws: Emotional. Bonds: Criminal record, Slave, Religious. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 1400 gp. Deep blue spinel (1500 gp). Malachite (12 gp).

Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking northern young adult. She sports violet clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. Her chestnut hair is greasy and uncared for. Her eyes are brown and catlike.

Personality: She is shy and timid. She has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. She is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: Her divine talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Ostracized due to the divine powers of her oldest brother, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Half-Elves became a terror of the countryside. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Slave, Family. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 400 gp. Lapis lazuli (14 gp). Aquamarine (200 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is an average looking northern male in his early mid-life. He wears a fine chain shirt which he covers with violet colored cloaks and clothing. His brown hair, when down, is lengthy. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: He has always had a great fascination with Halfling culture. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: Riardon was born in the north. At a young age he loved to build and create. In his youth he was part of a gang. He got caught, but did not rat out his comrades and served his time in prison. He used his abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Persistence. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: This southern woman is abnormally tall. 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. Her whole body is exceptionally muscular. Her golden hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a dagger scrunchie. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. Her father was a soldier and died while she was still young. Arha was left her father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. She now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: Meet up once more with her childhood friend; and she wants to meet her childhood hero

Ideals: Philantrophist, Logical. Bonds: Adventurer, Immigrant, Military. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: Carnelian (30 gp).

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His white hair is knotted and matted. His eyes are black and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. He is a great chef.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. After coming to the age of reason, Damakos took it upon himself to study the arcane arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Addict, Mundane. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 900 gp. Iolite (20 gp). Moss agate (4 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment, and sports empty pouches on her belt. She has moderate length chestnut hair. Her amber eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She likes to fabricate stories about her past exploits and how crazy she is, but in actuality she is rather bland. She is a great chef.

History: She comes from a rich northern family. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered writing. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: To end her boredom; and retire the richest woman in the north

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted, Artistic. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: This man is very fat, and wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty blue coat over it. His red hair is thinning but still full. His green eyes peer out from beneath his Stetson blue hat.

Personality: He likes to make people angry or surprised. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: Berrian was born the youngest of three triplets. His parents enrolled him in a Cleric school at a young age so that he could practice his arcane talents. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 300 pp. Solid gold idol (1100 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (700 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (60 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (100 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (100 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (4000 gp). A pair of blacksmith’s puzzle; each has a pair of interlocked iron designs that users try to take apart and put back together (100 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (700 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (100 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She is dressed in a clean tan cloak covering her clean studded leather. She wears a broad hat to cover her moderate length chestnut hair. Her eyes are likewise blue. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: She is shy and timid. She has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. She is ready at a moment's notice to give into her darker urges. She is a real pyromaniac and does not care who the fire hurts. She often ends up burning people alive in the fires she starts.

History: Arara was born with her father's beautiful face. 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 remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: She is a bit of a kleptomaniac.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Shy, Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Masterwork Heavy steel shield.