Description: A 4'3" western man, he does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. He wears a wide-brimmed hat to cover his moderate length red hair. He is baby faced.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes goblins are coming to abduct people. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: Thradal lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and to be a bookbinder again

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Bonds: Enemies, Family, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 200 pp. Deep blue spinel (600 gp). Golden pearl (100 gp). Jet (100 gp). Alexandrite (600 gp). Jade (100 gp). Hematite (11 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Her skin has the orange glow of too much sun. She is wearing a tight blue one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. Her moppish chestnut hair is in a traditional bowl cut. Her eyes are amber and beady.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. She invented a lineage for herself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: A child with a great deal of singing talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. Her mother disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her mother, she was betrayed dozens of times. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Meet up once more with her childhood friend; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother

Ideals: Disciplined, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 100000 cp. Tiger eye turquoise (14 gp). Hematite (14 gp).

Description: 4'7" and lanky with angular features, she is an attractive figure. She wears just a tan suit. Her hair is cut close to her head. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: Ahinar hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her poetry career. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her poetry with anyone who is interested.

History: She was born in the south, but her parents moved at a very young age to the north. She has had some formal poetry training, and achieved minor success. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: Regain custody of her daughter; and to unite with her sister

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 700 sp. 3 Smokesticks. 3 Smokesticks.

Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with her rolled up shirt sleeves this gives her a very relaxed look. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her skin is flawless and her violet eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. She passes on several rewards to people in need. She makes a point to leave places better than she found them.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Shoemaker arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a son. She was granted psionic powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and money/treasure

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted, Philantrophist. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, In love. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 500 gp. An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (50 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright tan and violet, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. She has auburn hair. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She misses her glory days as an athlete. She does not mind her job, but it is boring in comparison. Her philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Adrie was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. In her 19th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her mother impaled in their home, and her father beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: She is greedy.

Ideals: Athletic, Optimist. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Mentor. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 100 gp. Bloodstone (60 gp). Jade (160 gp).

Description: He dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. His skin is fair and his fingers are delicate and long. His chestnut hair is thinning but still full. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are gray.

Personality: Gilthur is a sociable creature first and foremost. He loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. He can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. He is harsh and unforgiving.

History: A child with a great deal of dancing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered dancing. Now he works as a dancing tutor during his time off.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Extrovert, Artistic, Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Slave. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition, and carries pickaxes. Her gold crest is still thick. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Marshal who has hired her part-time. She spends most of her days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There she gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: Born in the south her family was never financially stable. Her mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her mother was legitimate. She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature pickaxe.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark.

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Poor, Has a crush, Adventurer, Religious. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 900 gp.

Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He sports blue clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. He wears a feathered hat to cover his moderate length brown hair. He has blue eyes.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk; and to reunite with his old friends

Ideals: Athletic, Justice. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 500 gp. Tiger eye turquoise (15 gp). Sardonyx (60 gp). Chrysoprase (60 gp).

Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic right leg, he wears just a red suit. His hair is black and curly. His half smiles and amber eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. A fanatic, his devotion to his small selection of gods is unquestionable. He claims to be doing their will and will base all his actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: Fargas was raised in a hard working conservative environment. 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. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Spice Merchant.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and balancing his hectic life and new spice merchant responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Logical. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Religious. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: Just what you see.