Description: She wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her ceremonial dagger with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. She has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to her abundance of muscles. She has moderate length silver hair. She has a dull look in her green eyes.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk she knows how to make people feel guilty. 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: The child of southern immigrants she idolized her father. A serious injury left her father unemployed and in need of constant care. Her family became saddled with debt trying to care for her infirm father. She became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: She desires power and/or immortality; and meet up once more with her childhood friend

Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Adventurer, Immigrant, Debt. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: She is lean but muscular and is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. Her long white hair reaches down to her waist. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, she has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. She is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: A powerful wizard made her what she is. Being born in the north, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the north for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way west. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her sons to still be retired.

Motivation: She desires power and/or immortality; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Fighting, Disciplined, Gifted. Bonds: Mentor, Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 1000 gp. White opal (600 gp). Star ruby (600 gp). Lapis lazuli (7 gp). Aquamarine (1500 gp). Blue star sapphire (600 gp). Star ruby (600 gp).

Description: With brown face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she wears brown painted combat armor at almost all times. She has moderate length brown hair. Her half smiles and brown eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: She is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. She does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of dire rats may trigger it at times.

History: Born in the west her family was never financially stable. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father 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 has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to dire rats demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Many dire rats want her driven away; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and she desires to right it

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Poor. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 13000 sp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (100 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This southern man usually wears his pastel robe and has his spear always slung over his shoulder. His clothes are grease stained in places. He sports a flattop fur cut. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his amber eyes.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of drow once and for all.

History: When he was but 8 years old his parents immigrated from the south. Because his mother participated in the massacre of their homeland, drow burned their ranch to the ground and forced them out. He was preparing to flee to the south, but the outbreak of war prevented him and his father from journeying south to reunite his family. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to drow demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Revenge; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by drow, and he desires to right it

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 250 pp. Jeweled gold crown (5000 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (800 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (500 gp). Old masterpiece painting (2200 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp).

Description: This younger middle-aged man wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt, and a wedding ring on his left hand. His brown hair is thinning but still full. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: Here is a man who knows he is the smartest in the room. He talks down to others constantly. He refers to his adoptive father for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. His father was very strict, and drilled into him lessons on being the perfect gentleman. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Carter they were divorced and he won custody of their daughter. He worked as a Stableman, and he later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion.

Ideals: Impeccable. Bonds: In love, Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 800 gp. Star ruby (1200 gp). Deep blue spinel (1200 gp). Sard (60 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This late middle aged woman is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing grey cape and mantle trimmed with soft tan waves gently in the breeze and is in decent physical shape. She has a very tight haircut. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: A deeply religious woman she believes everything happens for a reason. Agnes enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. Cursed with vampirism at a very young age, Agnes has worked very hard to control her curse. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions; and to find somewhere to settle down

Flaws: Hedonist, Mundane, Disease. Bonds: Rich, Religious. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 100 gp. 3 Holy water.

Description: This northern man is abnormally tall. He wears violet trousers with grey and blue striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. He keeps his silver hair in a pixie cut. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep gray.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Stableman born in the past three hundred years. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: The child of a Bookbinder, who enjoyed hunting, Varis was taken on many hunting expeditions. Varis liked to wander the woods near his home when he was young, something he still likes to do at least once a week. He never liked modest clothing or shoes, so he would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and he developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Stableman responsibilities is difficult.

Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Immigrant, Job, Nature. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 40 pp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (500 gp). Finely wrought small gold bracelet (40 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (400 gp).

Description: She is a paragon of her species. She is larger and stronger than most Elves. Her skin is light but she possesses many black ritualistic tattoos. She wears baggy tan pantaloons and a black scarf. Her auburn hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. Her eyes are blue and catlike.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating she would invite many more into her home than her spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. She invites people to come help in her community garden.

History: She got into the Spice Merchant business at a young age. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Spice Merchant for the past few years.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This man is very fat, and wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with black lining and desert motifs. His tied-back hair is white. He has gleaming, smiling gray eyes.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. He is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: He was born into a rich family. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He struck the Navigator job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and sabotage a competitor

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Shy. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 1200 gp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (800 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.