Description: She is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. She carries with her a set of whips, each one with a amber on the hilt. She only wears one on her belt and the other on her back. She wears a top hat to hide her balding. This violet eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She is a hateful person. She taunts others and blames them for her problems. Animals are drawn to her, and she is able to talk to them.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her father always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. Because her father participated in the massacre of their homeland, drow burned their ranch to the ground and forced them out. She was preparing to flee to the south, but the outbreak of war prevented her and her mother from journeying south to reunite her family. She was granted divine powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and someone believes her a fraud

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Server

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A moderately attractive woman, she is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. Her brown hair is braided into rings. Her violet eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She swings through moods quickly. One moment she is cool and collected, the next she is carried away by passions. Hugolina is a bit of a follower. Usually she is manipulated by her sisters into helping them out, but recently she has become more of a free agent.

History: A child with a great deal of painting talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. 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. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her sons to still be retired.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion; and marry her sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Passionate, Artistic. Flaws: PTSD. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 30 gp.

Description: This slender man stands about 6'0". He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized brown coat. He wears his auburn hair up in a very large beehive style do. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He is happy with his job as a Apothecary. He turns his eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage son.

History: Clerebold was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Humans in the south were limited. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Apothecary and was forced into it by his family; and to unite with his brother

Bonds: Attractive, Job, Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: Citrine (50 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: His skin is bronze and flawless. He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with grey lining and desert motifs. He is an epitome of beauty. He keeps his black hair in a pixie cut. His half smiles and hazel eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He will rave to anyone who will listen. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Olunt was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and he feels kind of lost in life

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor, Immigrant. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: His right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. His brown hair is cut short. His hazel eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

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 has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: His psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. In his youth he was part of a gang. He got caught, but did not rat out his comrades and served his time in prison. He has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: He wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and a rival would like him out of the picture

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic, Greedy. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 200 gp. 3 Antitoxin. 5 Acid flasks. 4 Holy water.

Description: Standing 5'4", this man dresses well, wearing yellow shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time. His hair is cut close to his head. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He receives visions of the future at random moments

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He was granted druidic powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Insane, Secretive. Bonds: Attractive, Slave. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: This exceptionally lanky woman wears blue painted combat armor at almost all times. She has no hair. Her gray eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. She is very protective of her business, her home, and her spouse. She is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. Anastrianna was a troubled youth. She spent her days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent her evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Anastrianna decided she wanted neither the life of her mother nor that of the evil petty criminals she associated with. During her early adolescence, she took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. Being a Carter kept her interest for a while, but then she became depressed and bored. So she turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: A rival would like her out of the picture.

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 20 gp.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She wears a fancy brown dress. She wears her white hair down. She has several tiny sapphire earrings on each ear.

Personality: She is envious of other's things. She hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that she so desires. She is used to getting what she wants. In part because she is a meticulous planner.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. Her mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: She uses money and sex appeal to get what she needs; and money/treasure

Ideals: Professionalism, Gifted, Fighting. Flaws: Greedy. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 70000 cp. Lapis lazuli (12 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1000 gp). Jasper (20 gp). Rhodochrosite (12 gp). Sard (20 gp). Deep blue spinel (1000 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what he was had he not made sure his armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit he wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). His blonde hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Halander grew up listening to his father's many stories. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

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

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 4000 sp.