Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she dresses in tan turtlenecks beneath a black coat with tan slacks. Her moppish brown hair is in a traditional bowl cut. She has amber eyes.

Personality: She hates brigands. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She is kind towards other women and children and will generally offer women help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to her.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. In her 10th year, her parents were killed by a brigands raid, leaving Elama alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her sons to still be retired.

Motivation: She is wracked by social anxiety; and regain custody of her son

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Disease, Fearful. Bonds: Enemies, Family. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 3000 gp. Deep blue spinel (1200 gp). Sard (20 gp). Moonstone (20 gp). Amber (110 gp). Star rose quartz (20 gp). Violet garnet (1200 gp). Hematite (12 gp). Malachite (12 gp). Hematite (12 gp). Alexandrite (1200 gp). Moonstone (20 gp). Lapis lazuli (12 gp). Blue quartz (12 gp). Sardonyx (20 gp). Deep blue spinel (1200 gp). Freshwater pearl (12 gp). Zircon (20 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1200 gp). Black pearl (1200 gp). Bloodstone (20 gp). Black pearl (1200 gp). Hematite (12 gp). Tourmaline (110 gp). Obsidian (12 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This northern woman wears a tight fitting white shirt and pants. Her clothes are grease stained in places. Her black hair is unkempt and raggedy. 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 can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: The child of northern immigrants she idolized her father. Her parents enrolled her in a Druid school at a young age so that she could practice her arcane talents. She was granted arcane powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and she is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 4000 gp. Hematite (10 gp). Chalcedony (20 gp). Chrysoberyl (40 gp). Azurite (10 gp). White opal (1400 gp). Red spinel (40 gp).

Description: His left side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a grey coat. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. 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 to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and he is greedy

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Military, Rich. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 5000 gp. Old masterpiece painting (1000 gp). Gold music box (1000 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 (70 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (5000 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (5000 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He wears silk and lounges about seductively. He carries with him a set of glaives, each one with a ruby on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. His hair is long and brown with streaks of red, and is pulled back with small blue clips. His beard is red, braided, and well cared for. His eyes are green and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk he knows how to make people feel guilty. He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Arannis was born on a far northern forest where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Mercenary. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: To end his boredom; and he is content

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Depressed, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 3000 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). Jeweled anklet (2000 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (50 gp). A detailed rose, with petals and thorns, constructed of silver and electrum (10 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (50 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1300 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1000 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (50 gp).

Description: He is a pot bellied western man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a green coat. His black hair has been sun bleached extensively. His eyes are gold and catlike.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He is kind towards other men and children and will generally offer men help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to him.

History: Balam was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his father was employed at, doing general labor. His childhood dream was to be a Glassblower, but he was a colossal failure. He struck the Guard job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and to be a glassblower again

Ideals: Athletic, Philantrophist. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 8000 gp. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. He keeps his silver hair in a pixie cut. He has a tattooed face.

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. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: He got into the Stableman business at a young age. He was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Many orcs want him driven away; and balancing his hectic life and new stableman responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 11000 gp.

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She is wearing a long, yellow cloak. Her brown hair is smooth and relatively long. Her brown eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. She is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with her big mouthed big gutted partner. Her partner is her best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. More though she will beg to come along on any journeys. She will attempt to stowaway on any ship she can in the hopes that it will get her further away.

History: Her necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Her father was very strict, and drilled into her lessons on being the perfect lady. She became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and she wants to meet her childhood hero

Ideals: Gifted, Impeccable. Flaws: Addict, Insomniac. Bonds: Adventurer, Slave. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 3000 gp. Black pearl (200 gp). Canary diamond (8000 gp). Moss agate (9 gp). Deep green spinel (140 gp). Brown-green garnet (140 gp). Chrysoberyl (140 gp). Fire opal (800 gp). Red garnet (140 gp). Sardonyx (40 gp). Alexandrite (200 gp). Black pearl (200 gp). 1 Medium magic item.