Description: Her skin has the orange glow of too much sun. She wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). With wild red hair. She is baby faced.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. She is fiercely devoted to her mother, and views her mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-brother.

History: She was born in the west, but her parents moved at a very young age to the north. She worked as a nervous Animal Trainer and found it very stressful. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Animal Trainer.

Motivation: She has passion for adventuring and risk; and balancing her hectic life and new animal trainer responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Family, Immigrant, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 700 pp. Blue quartz (6 gp). Jasper (40 gp). Chrysoprase (40 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1600 gp). Sardonyx (40 gp). White opal (1300 gp). Moss agate (6 gp). Chrysoberyl (60 gp). Bloodstone (40 gp). Deep blue spinel (1600 gp). Blue-white diamond (6000 gp). Black pearl (1600 gp). Iolite (40 gp). Red spinel (60 gp). Rhodochrosite (6 gp).

Description: He wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 6'10" when asserting himself. His head has been shaved. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. 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 studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. He was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of freemasons.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Secretive. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 10000 gp. Jasper (40 gp). Onyx (40 gp). Zircon (40 gp). Jade (50 gp). Deep blue spinel (1000 gp). Bloodstone (40 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (13 gp). Black pearl (1000 gp). Aquamarine (1000 gp). Silver pearl (50 gp). Malachite (13 gp). Lapis lazuli (13 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking eastern young adult. She dresses in black turtlenecks beneath a white coat with pastel slacks. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. Her hair is purple and curly. Her silver eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Seere is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Ruler. After a long history of fighting, Seere and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Disease, Antagonistic. Bonds: Slave, Job. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 6000 gp. Alexandrite (500 gp). White opal (1400 gp). Alexandrite (500 gp). Malachite (11 gp). White pearl (80 gp). Chalcedony (20 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This exceptionally lanky man wears a fancy grey suit. With a patchy auburn beard and wild auburn hair. He has several tiny jet earrings on each ear.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the west. He is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. His father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: He is greedy; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Pacifist, Logical. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 12000 gp. A pair of blacksmith’s puzzle; each has a pair of interlocked iron designs that users try to take apart and put back together (80 gp). A delicate silver chain set with a tourmaline (80 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (100 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (600 gp). A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (90 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (600 gp). Solid gold idol (300 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (2400 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (90 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (90 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (600 gp). Solid gold idol (300 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (90 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (2400 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (90 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (6000 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (100 gp). Solid gold idol (300 gp).

Description: He is dressed in a clean brown cloak covering his clean studded leather, and carries tridents. He has done his best to style his white fur to look like a famous performer. His eyes are likewise green. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He refers to his adoptive mother 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: Born in the east to a Glassblower, Cask learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. 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 became a Glassblower soon after.

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

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Job. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 2000 gp. Solid gold idol (700 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1500 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (900 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (140 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (700 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (2400 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (700 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1500 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She wears a violet collared shirt and black skirt. She accessorizes with a red scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across her shirt. Sporting a red mohawk this woman's hair draws a lot of attention. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady gray eyes.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. She invites people to come help in her community garden.

History: Matilda lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. A freak accident while working with her Miller mother left her crippled. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and marry her sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Detective

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

Possessions: 7000 gp. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She is a physically imposing light-skinned woman. She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. She sports a flattop hair cut. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She is curt in most of her responses. She prefers to keep her word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. Around other people she will do her best to conceal her emotions and appear jolly.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. After coming to the age of reason, Syllin took it upon herself to study the druidic arts in their entirety; because of this, she was labeled a dark omen and banished from her homeland. She was forced to fight in gladiatorial arenas alongside her partner. They became the best of friends and one day they managed to break out together and then went their separate ways.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and retire the richest woman in the north

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Fighting. Flaws: Insomniac, Shy. Bonds: Slave. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 500 pp. Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (600 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (600 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (600 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). Jeweled gold crown (3000 gp). An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (100 gp). A delicate brass dragon egg (100 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (180 gp). A delicate silver chain set with a tourmaline (100 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (1000 gp). 1 Medium magic item.