Description: This tall, slender woman is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. Her silver hair, when down, is lengthy. Her hazel eyes are passionate and lively.

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 constantly seizes attention wherever she goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. She likes to think of herself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: She was born at the edge of vast plains. Gurdis liked to wander the woods near her home when she was young, something she still likes to do at least once a week. She never liked modest clothing or shoes, so she would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and she developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. She has been saving her money to try and buy her sister's freedom.

Motivation: She is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and to reunite with her absent mother

Ideals: Joker, Impeccable. Bonds: Nature, Family, Criminal record. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 270 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy auburn stubble. She is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright blue and tan, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. She has a hunchback. She wears a broad hat to hide her balding. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are amber.

Personality: She is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks her mind. She receives visions of the future at random moments

History: Vaina was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Like her mother and her brother before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Bellfounder. She tends to her Bellfounder job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Gifted, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: Peridot (50 gp). Red garnet (90 gp).

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 brown hair. Her hazel eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She is business-like. She takes instructions and follows them to the letter. More though she will beg to come along on any journeys. She will attempt to stowaway on any ship she can in the hopes that it will get her further away.

History: She was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for her. It may also be what makes her so good at details. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and retire the richest woman in the west

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Professionalism. Flaws: Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Slave. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 900 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with black lining and desert motifs. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. His crest is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His eyes are red and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Calm and collected, he is a well trained Farmer. He is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with his old comrades. He has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. In the meantime he has taken over work as a Farmer and occasionally as a mercenary.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Human artifacts is his passion; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Bonds: Attractive, Job, Adventurer, Military. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 220 pp. Rose (40 gp). Violet garnet (1400 gp). Tourmaline (160 gp). Aquamarine (1400 gp). Violet garnet (1400 gp). Moonstone (40 gp). Silver pearl (160 gp).

Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. Her golden hair is singed and shortened. Her ears are large.

Personality: She does not care much for physical appearances, nor does she care much for other people. She does however care about what she wants and getting it. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her painting with anyone who is interested.

History: Juliana was born in the north. At a young age she loved to build and create. Her mother was a mechanic, and taught her how to fix just about anything. Recently a tribe of gnolls attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Juliana fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Marry her brother to traveling adventurers.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Artistic, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 800 gp. Violet garnet (800 gp). Chrysoprase (50 gp). Coral (40 gp). Hematite (8 gp).

Description: This exceptionally lanky woman tends to wear a large brown jacket. Her red fur is smooth and relatively long. Her eyes are green.

Personality: She is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. She also is a firm believer in the womanly ideal.

History: She was born in the west. A freak accident while working with her Sage father left her crippled. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Ploughman responsibilities is difficult; and wants to open a new tavern

Flaws: Shy, Impulsive, Disease. Bonds: Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 80 pp. Lapis lazuli (7 gp). Citrine (50 gp). Blue quartz (7 gp). Deep green spinel (40 gp). Golden pearl (40 gp). Rich purple corundum (1500 gp). Blue sapphire (1500 gp).

Description: The woman speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. She seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if she got out from a pool a few moments ago. She wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty blue coat over it. With bright brown hair. Her eyes are a pleasant violet.

Personality: She has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Map Maker who has hired her part-time. As long as the job gets done she does not care how it got done.

History: The child of northern immigrants she idolized her father. She was taken from her home at a very young age. She has gone from town to town working and never settling down anywhere, but has fallen for a local Tanner. She hasn't told them the truth, but wants to settle down with them.

Motivation: She wants to get laid; and she is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Has a crush, Slave. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Nasally tone

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

Description: He has a missing right leg. He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with brown lining and desert motifs. With a patchy silver beard and wild silver hair. His blue eyes peer out from beneath his feathered brown hat.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for him. He lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: Aldous was born with his father's beautiful face. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: He is greedy.

Ideals: Justice. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Slave. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 1100 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally she sports a brown coat. She is portly but not overly obese. She wears a colorful flower in her black hair. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: She never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. She is underhanded and not above using her wealth and body to get others to do her bidding.

History: The child of a Courier, who enjoyed hunting, Diesa was taken on many hunting expeditions. 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. Recently a tribe of giants attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Diesa fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: She is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Optimist, Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Religious. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 100 pp. Silver comb with moonstones (500 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (500 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (8000 gp). Solid gold idol (500 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (3000 gp). An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (30 gp).