Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. She keeps her blonde hair in a pixie cut. This brown eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. She uses her nature as a weapon; she likes to lead opponents to think her in distress.

History: When she was but 8 years old her parents immigrated from the west. She has had some formal singing training, and achieved minor success. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the west; and she possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Artistic. Flaws: Terse, Secretive. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Server

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 1000 sp. Amber (110 gp). Black opal (1600 gp). Smoky quartz (70 gp).

Description: She is of a modest build and height, but she carries herself more imposing than she is. She prefers to wear brown clothing when she does not wear armor. Her white fur is still thick. Her blue eyes peer out from beneath her small brown hat.

Personality: She considers herself a woman of culture and sophistication. She likes a good challenge to her wits. She receives visions of the future at random moments

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: She doesn't get along with people that don't share her tastes; and she has a rivalry with the church that dominates her actions

Ideals: Impeccable, Gifted. Bonds: Rich, Job, Religious. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 600 gp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (300 gp). Solid gold idol (700 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (2000 gp). Jeweled anklet (2000 gp).

Description: An older man who wears a blue cloak and cross-gartered brown stockings, he is not a threatening figure. His hair is silver and very short. He has gleaming, smiling brown eyes.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: He was born in the west. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He would like to get married and retire; and wants his loneliness to end

Ideals: Justice, Optimist. Bonds: Immigrant, Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 3000 sp.

Description: He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with brown lining and desert motifs. His fur is lavender and curly. His fierce green eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Gale will drive conversation. He passes on several rewards to people in need. He makes a point to leave places better than he found them.

History: A child with a great deal of poetry talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered poetry. He left for the north, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and he feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help

Ideals: Extrovert, Philantrophist, Artistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 1200 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a red costume with the symbols of the four houses of cards on his torso. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His gray eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He is envious of other's things. He hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that he so desires. To his fellows he is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: Trained by his father for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. He was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. When he grew older, he became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. He began work as a mercenary for hire. He would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: Revenge; and he wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away

Flaws: Greedy. Bonds: Enemies, Military, Adventurer. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 500 gp. Hematite (14 gp). Rock crystal (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This tall, slender man wears baggy tan pantaloons and a grey scarf. He sports a long black beard, and similarly colored long hair. He has amber eyes and a tan hat with a grey feather.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. 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: Jebeddo was born the youngest of three triplets. The family's rival house kidnapped his sister with the intent that his sister marry their son to gain control of contested properties. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 2 years.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and he wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Greedy. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 600 gp.

Description: He wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. He keeps his long orange fur kept up in a rat tail. He has blue eyes.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. His brief stint in the army gave him the idea he was invincible and that he is the toughest man alive.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. He spent several years traveling with his friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: He has a crush on the local Animal Trainer; and he's in love

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Military, Adventurer, Has a crush. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. She carries her fan with her everywhere and carries herself as the perfect lady. She sports a flattop hair cut. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. She uses her nature as a weapon; she likes to lead opponents to think her in distress.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. Her first spouse was a Navigator, they had one son, but her spouse won total custody. Without her spouse to temper her she grew out of control. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: She is greedy; and doesn't want to be a miller and was forced into it by her family

Flaws: Shy, Secretive. Bonds: Rich, Military, Family. Occupation: Miller

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

Possessions: 3200 sp.

Description: She is lean but muscular and tends to wear a black poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt. She has styled her black crest well, parting it to the right. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She hates brigands. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist she will grow angry at them.

History: Ruloth lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Her father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: She is greedy.

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Enemies, Family, Rich. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 1700 sp. 3 Tanglefoot bags. 2 Thunderstones. 4 Alchemist’s fire.