Description: A woman with a warm, jovial air about her, she is renowned for her bright black dresses and hats. With wild golden hair. Her fierce amber eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She seems absolutely devoid of it. She stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: Tawar was born in the south. At a young age she loved to build and create. Her martial abilities were realized during a raid on her village. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 12 years.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down.

Ideals: Gifted, Persistence. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: This late middle aged man dresses well, wearing brown shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time and is in decent physical shape. His black hair is braided into rings. He is baby faced.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Taklinn embodies much of what other species detest in the Dwarves. Any perceived weakness will be pressed and exploited. He is seen as merciless and passionate.

History: Taklinn hails from a village terrorized by brigands. At some point he was captured by brigands and was tortured. After several years of this he finally managed to escape. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact.

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Enemies, Slave. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 80 gp.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized white coat. He has blonde hair. His eyes are likewise violet.

Personality: He has always had a great fascination with Tiefling culture. He feeds upon the attention of others.

History: The child of western immigrants he idolized his father. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: Tiefling compassion.

Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He wears white trousers with violet and black striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. His chestnut hair is matted, messy, and big. He has brown eyes.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He plays an instrument quite well.

History: The child of southern immigrants he idolized his mother. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered writing. He has been saving his money to try and buy his sister's freedom.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and marry his sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Justice, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Bather

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: Sardonyx (70 gp). Chalcedony (70 gp). Amethyst (100 gp).

Description: She dresses well, wearing black shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time. She cuts an attractive figure and her suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. Her black crest is drawn into a tight pony tail with a cross scrunchie. Her red eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She likes to brag about her accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. She is a ruthless business woman, a trait she acquired from her father.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the west; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Passionate, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 700 gp. Aquamarine (1300 gp). Golden pearl (120 gp). Jet (120 gp). Amethyst (120 gp). Alexandrite (1300 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing brown cape and mantle trimmed with soft blue waves gently in the breeze. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his club, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a card on it. With bright golden hair and a scraggly beard. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He loves teas. He is very sensitive about his face. To blow off anger he lifts weights and to control his otherwise explosive temper he works out a lot.

History: A child with a great deal of dancing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and he is greedy

Ideals: Philantrophist, Fighting, Artistic. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 170 gp. 1 Everburning torch.

Description: She prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for her hunting needs, and carries shields. She has done her best to style her black hair to look like a famous performer. Her eyes are likewise silver. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

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. Ostracized due to the martial powers of her oldest sister, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Tieflings became a terror of the countryside. She was granted martial powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and to find somewhere to settle down

Ideals: Fighting, Disciplined, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 12000 sp. Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1000 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp).

Description: This woman wears light armors faded through time and improper care. She is muscular with a powerful set of arms. She sports a flattop crest cut. Her gold eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Furrele will drive conversation. Her job bores her to no end. She has decided to make it more interesting.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Shipwright arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Furrele grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Furrele. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: She has passion for adventuring and risk; and money/treasure

Ideals: Extrovert. Bonds: Adventurer, Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 120 pp. Hematite (6 gp). Rock crystal (40 gp). Deep blue spinel (600 gp).

Description: A moderately attractive woman, she wears a large hat to cast shadows over her face and wears ponchos to better hide her body. Her red hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. She has several tiny jet earrings on each ear.

Personality: She hates orcs. 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: When she was but 8 years old her parents immigrated from the north. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Enemies, Immigrant. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: Just what you see.