Description: This younger middle-aged woman wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment, and a wedding ring on her right hand. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: Anne is depressed about a lot of things. She tends to be a nihilist. She is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. She made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature axe.

Motivation: She wants to meet her childhood hero.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: In love, Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 6000 gp.

Description: This slender man stands about 3'2". He is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest. His hair is black and curly. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

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. His brief stint in the army gave him the idea he was invincible and that he is the toughest man alive.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. In his 18th year, his parents were killed by a dire rats raid, leaving Sapply alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Crown-heir for hire.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and further expansion of business

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Military, Enemies, Job. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 2000 gp. Old masterpiece painting (500 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (900 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (700 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (500 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (900 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (900 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (1300 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (170 gp). Jeweled gold crown (8000 gp). Jeweled anklet (1000 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (500 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (500 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears professional attire. She is physically well-built. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her hazel eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. 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: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. Menny was born on a far western island where she grew up under the tutelage of her father, an expert Shoemaker. During her travels, Menny and her party rested in a cavern that was (unknown to them) infused with powerful dark magic. Upon awakening, Menny discovered the rest of her party dead, transformed into horrible, mindless undead versions of their former selves. Menny fled the cavern, stopping for breath at a small pool, and only then realizing her own horrible transformation.

Motivation: She's looking for her big break; and obtaining odd cultural dwarven artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Immigrant. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 1100 pp. Star rose quartz (60 gp). Moss agate (5 gp). Chalcedony (60 gp). Coral (130 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (5 gp). Sardonyx (60 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This tall, slender man very much looks the part of a Spice Merchant. His black crest is long and unkept. His gold eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. He seeks to pay back kindness whenever he gets the chance. Whether it be in the form of unwanted serenades or the latest gossip he always seeks to do solids for his friends.

History: The child of northern immigrants he idolized his father. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. He tends to his Spice Merchant job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Terse. Bonds: Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 800 pp. A detailed rose, with petals and thorns, constructed of silver and electrum (80 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (500 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (6000 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (300 gp). Silver ewer (80 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (5000 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (300 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (300 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (300 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (300 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (30 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (500 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1800 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (300 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (500 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1800 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (6000 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). A small bag of saffron. (80 gp).

Description: A 5'3" northern man, he wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. He wears a colorful flower in his red hair. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. Modean enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

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. Modean abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. Lacking all sense, he decided to go on an adventure. He picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Shy, Hedonist. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 1100 pp. Jet (80 gp). Blue sapphire (400 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (400 gp). Rose (60 gp). Moss agate (12 gp). Sardonyx (60 gp). Sard (60 gp). Deep green spinel (80 gp). Moss agate (12 gp). Moonstone (60 gp). Citrine (60 gp). Black pearl (1500 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (12 gp). Pink pearl (80 gp). Carnelian (60 gp). Jet (80 gp).

Description: A 5'8" eastern woman, she wears a worn and beaten armor. She has wavy black hair. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She is quiet and unassuming. She ignores others and carries on with her job unassumingly. When she's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, she's doing painting.

History: Born in the east her family was never financially stable. Like her father and her sister before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Mayor. She tends to her Mayor job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Artistic, Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Poor. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 1200 pp.

Description: A 4'3" western woman, she wears a grey shirt with thin brown vertical stripes and black pants. She is bald on top and has large blonde tufts of hair around her ears. She has green eyes.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She is used to getting what she wants. In part because she is a meticulous planner.

History: Heir to a fortune, her parents put a great deal of effort into curing her disease. Cursed with lycanthropy at a very young age, Barbena 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: Money/treasure; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Philantrophist, Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 6000 gp. Star rose quartz (70 gp). Golden yellow topaz (300 gp). Deep green spinel (140 gp). Rock crystal (70 gp). Aquamarine (300 gp). Rhodochrosite (15 gp). Violet garnet (300 gp). Lapis lazuli (15 gp). Zircon (70 gp). Zircon (70 gp). Red-brown spinel (140 gp). Rose (70 gp). Jasper (70 gp).