Description: A stocky darker skinned woman, she is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. She wears a broad hat to cover her moderate length blonde hair. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She misses her glory days as an athlete. She does not mind her job, but it is boring in comparison. She is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes her no end of embarrassment.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: She is greedy; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Athletic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insane, Forgetful. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 3000 gp. Deep blue spinel (800 gp). Blue star sapphire (500 gp). Peridot (30 gp). Golden yellow topaz (800 gp). Azurite (11 gp). Black pearl (800 gp). Silver pearl (70 gp). Moss agate (11 gp). Golden pearl (70 gp). Jet (70 gp). Moss agate (11 gp). Alexandrite (800 gp). Eye agate (11 gp). Rhodochrosite (11 gp). Deep blue spinel (800 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This man tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized jet on his left hand. His cinnamon fur is thinning but still full. He has gleaming, smiling yellow eyes.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. He can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. He inherited a moderately successful company from his father. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. After a long history of fighting, Edge and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs; and money/treasure

Ideals: Joker, Gifted, Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Attractive. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 16000 gp. Tourmaline (70 gp). Star rose quartz (30 gp). Rhodochrosite (6 gp). Chalcedony (30 gp). Malachite (6 gp). Malachite (6 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He is a paragon of his species. He is larger and stronger than most Half-Orcs. His skin is light but he possesses many white ritualistic tattoos. He wears black painted combat armor at almost all times. He has done his best to style his white hair to look like a famous performer. His skin is flawless and his violet eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: He likes to make people angry or surprised. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. His parents divorced when he was young, and his mother gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his mother, who blamed him for driving them apart. 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 find somewhere to settle down.

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Antagonistic, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Server

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 5000 gp. An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (140 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (100 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (5000 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (5000 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (2000 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1200 gp). Gold music box (2000 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (80 gp). A detailed rose, with petals and thorns, constructed of silver and electrum (80 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: With white face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he is renowned for his bright grey suits and hats. His hair is red and curly. His hazel unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He acts crazy and hedonistic. 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: He comes from a rich western family. Being born in the west, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the west for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way south. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Disease, Hedonist. Bonds: Rich, Family, In love. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 6000 gp. Zircon (60 gp). White pearl (90 gp). Malachite (7 gp). Amber (90 gp). Golden yellow topaz (600 gp). Obsidian (7 gp). Sardonyx (60 gp). Star ruby (1200 gp). Red garnet (90 gp). Black pearl (600 gp). Alexandrite (600 gp). Malachite (7 gp). Black opal (1200 gp). Pink pearl (90 gp). Brown-green garnet (90 gp). Peridot (60 gp). Red spinel (90 gp). Blue star sapphire (1200 gp). Violet garnet (600 gp). Hematite (7 gp). Alexandrite (600 gp). Obsidian (7 gp).

Description: He wears many layers of old clothing at all times. His red hair is still thick. He has a dull look in his red eyes.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: Balam was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He has dedicated himself to building a better kind of golem.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Poor, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 8000 gp. Tourmaline (50 gp). Lapis lazuli (7 gp). Deep green spinel (50 gp). Jade (50 gp). Jade (50 gp). Sard (50 gp). Emerald (1100 gp). Zircon (50 gp). Banded agate (7 gp). Violet garnet (800 gp). Aquamarine (800 gp). Deep blue spinel (800 gp). Aquamarine (800 gp). Moonstone (50 gp). Obsidian (7 gp). Bloodstone (50 gp). Blue quartz (7 gp). Moss agate (7 gp). Iolite (50 gp). Carnelian (50 gp). 1 Major magic item.

Description: A 4'8" southern man, he is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His tied-back hair is brown. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his blue eyes.

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. He receives visions of the future at random moments

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. A serious injury left his mother unemployed and in need of constant care. His family became saddled with debt trying to care for his infirm mother. 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: To pay off his debts; and he made a deal with a demon which lead to his current lot in life, and he's becoming increasingly nervous about it

Ideals: Persistence, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Debt. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 6000 gp. Malachite (12 gp). Iolite (40 gp). Black star sapphire (900 gp). Violet garnet (500 gp). Jet (90 gp). Silver pearl (90 gp). Jade (90 gp). Citrine (40 gp). Tourmaline (90 gp). Azurite (12 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. 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 hair is cut close to her head. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. 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: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: Marry her brother to traveling adventurers; and to reunite with her absent mother

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Shy, Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Family. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 10000 gp. Chalcedony (60 gp). Black pearl (500 gp). Golden yellow topaz (500 gp). Chalcedony (60 gp). Aquamarine (500 gp). Carnelian (60 gp). Moonstone (60 gp). Rich purple corundum (1100 gp). Deep blue spinel (500 gp). Eye agate (6 gp). Rock crystal (60 gp). White pearl (80 gp). Smoky quartz (60 gp). Malachite (6 gp). Blue diamond (7000 gp). Star rose quartz (60 gp). Jade (80 gp). Deep blue spinel (500 gp). Alexandrite (500 gp). Rich purple corundum (1100 gp). Golden yellow topaz (500 gp). Coral (80 gp). Violet garnet (500 gp). Deep green spinel (80 gp). Black pearl (500 gp). Freshwater pearl (6 gp). 1 Medium magic item.