Description: A moderately attractive woman, she is renowned for her bright blue dresses and hats. With bright white hair. This amber eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: Calm and collected, she is a well trained Server. She would rather hide behind her crafts than deal with other people.

History: A powerful brothel owner made her what she is. She was an apprentice working in her mother's forge. She has never given up on her painting dream.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Mentor. Occupation: Server

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 1500 gp. Old masterpiece painting (1900 gp).

Description: He is a mite stocky and wears a brown coat over a pastel low-cut shirt, and a Stetson hat upon his head. He keeps his long black hair kept up in a rat tail. His fierce blue eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He likes to brag about his accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. He will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Courier arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world; and he seems to be bored by most things

Ideals: Passionate, Athletic. Flaws: Impulsive, Mundane. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 900 gp. Freshwater pearl (8 gp). Fire opal (1300 gp). Black pearl (500 gp). Black pearl (500 gp). Rock crystal (40 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears silk and lounges about seductively. She sports a flattop hair cut. Her fierce hazel eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She speaks before she thinks and is too direct. She is a thrill seeker, she laughs at people and throws down challenges. She is highly competitive and combative.

History: Mardred was born with her mother's beautiful face. Her first spouse was a Sculptor, they had one son, but her spouse won total custody. Without her spouse to temper her she grew out of control. Recently a tribe of goblins attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Mardred fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: She has passion for adventuring and risk; and she's looking for her big break

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 160 pp.

Description: She is in excellent shape and tends to wear a large green jacket. She has styled her silver hair well, parting it to the right. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. She will do just about anything if she becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this she is easily convinced.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. She sought a place where she would be rewarded solely on the merits of her skills. This search led her directly into Apothecary work with an outfit from a few towns over. Apothecary work suited her well, and with each successful project, she earned more gold and more respect from her peers. She became a Apothecary soon after.

Motivation: She would like to get married and retire; and wants her loneliness to end

Ideals: Athletic, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 500 sp. Lapis lazuli (7 gp).

Description: Standing 3'2", this man wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He keeps his silver hair in a pixie cut. His eyes are likewise brown. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Umpen isn't afraid of most anything. He has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Gnomish unity. He will do just about anything if he becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this he is easily convinced.

History: He was born in a small desert village. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Impeccable. Bonds: Attractive, Has a crush, Nature. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 200 gp. Red-brown spinel (150 gp). White pearl (150 gp).

Description: This man typically wears black cloth garments or leather armor, and sports empty pouches on his belt. He has a very tight haircut. His eyes are amber.

Personality: He is cool and collected. He likes to make quips and puns whenever he does anything. He also makes a point to compliment his superiors and flatter them. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Târz is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: He was born in the north, but his parents moved at a very young age to the east. Târz was born on a far northern desert where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Bookbinder. He has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and he is greedy

Ideals: Disciplined, Justice. Bonds: Immigrant, Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 600 gp. Zircon (50 gp). Chalcedony (50 gp).

Description: This tall, slender woman is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright brown and black, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. She wears a small hat to cover her moderate length black fur. Her green eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She exudes charisma. She is a tour de force of persuasion. She claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day she will do what she thinks is right.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. She was an apprentice working in her father's forge. She's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and to be a ploughman again

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Addict, Mundane. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Job. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 800 sp. Jade (130 gp).

Description: She is a paragon of her species. She is larger and stronger than most Halflings. Her skin is dark but she possesses many white ritualistic tattoos. She wears a red collared shirt and white skirt. She accessorizes with a tan scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across her shirt. She has shaved her head bald. This hazel eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Rose isn't afraid of most anything. She has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Halfling unity. Flattery will make her almost putty in your hands.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Cursed with lycanthropy at a very young age, Rose has worked very hard to control her curse. One night she noticed a nearby shooting star which she hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. She has done her darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: Half-Orc compassion; and she feels the way she acts is they only way to get by in the world

Ideals: Impeccable, Persistence. Flaws: Selfish, Disease, Racist. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 1000 gp. Violet garnet (1100 gp). Brown-green garnet (160 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1100 gp).

Description: He is lean but muscular and wears silk and lounges about seductively. His gold crest has been sun bleached extensively. He has gleaming, smiling red eyes.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the west. He is very protective of his business, his home, and his spouse. He is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: Norkruuth was born with his father's beautiful face. A freak accident while working with his Priest father left him crippled. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture; and 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: Pacifist. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.