Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her hair is long and red with streaks of blonde, and is pulled back with small tan clips. She has gleaming, smiling gray eyes.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. 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: The child of a Fletcher, who enjoyed hunting, Claira was taken on many hunting expeditions. When she was little, her rather wealthy family often ventured across the plains to a summer home near a ruined castle. She would wander through that ruined castle and adventure through it for days. One day while adventuring a terrible storm took place and she was stranded inside. Her family spent the next few days looking for her, and could only assume she was dead when it came time to leave. The family never returned to the plains due to the painful memories there. Claira took refuge in the ruined castle and found the beat up halberd and armor she uses now. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 5 years.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and she desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted. Bonds: Adventurer, Nature, Job. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 1400 pp. Hematite (5 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (800 gp). Banded agate (5 gp). Blue star sapphire (800 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (800 gp). Red garnet (60 gp). Aquamarine (1500 gp). Sard (70 gp). Rhodochrosite (5 gp). Jet (60 gp). Chalcedony (70 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (5 gp). Jade (60 gp). Rhodochrosite (5 gp). White pearl (60 gp). Jet (60 gp). Sardonyx (70 gp). Moss agate (5 gp). Tourmaline (60 gp). Chalcedony (70 gp). Blue quartz (5 gp). 1 Major magic item.

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he wears dark leathers with embroidery. He has a very tight haircut. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. He is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. He inherited a moderately successful company from his mother. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and money/treasure

Flaws: Ugly, Lazy, Insomniac. Bonds: Slave, Rich. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 500 pp. Golden yellow topaz (600 gp). Blue sapphire (800 gp). Blue star sapphire (800 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He wears an entirely blue suit with brown socks and a vest with buckled shoes. His hair is brown and very short. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He is irritable and easily angered. He is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use his stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the south. Namfoodle 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. He has dedicated himself to building a better village for his children.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and he has passion for adventuring and risk

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Religious, Poor, Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: Pink diamond (3000 gp). Jet (90 gp). Peridot (80 gp). Eye agate (15 gp). Malachite (15 gp). Star rose quartz (80 gp). Blue star sapphire (600 gp). Carnelian (80 gp). Alexandrite (800 gp). Zircon (80 gp).

Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic left hand, he wears grey painted combat armor at almost all times. He sports a long white beard, and similarly colored long hair. His blue eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: Duergath hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his music career. He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: Duergath was born in the west. At a young age he loved to build and create. Duergath was born on a far western island where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Layabout. He found several beat up suits of armor and, cannibalizing spare parts, he put together a working one.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister.

Ideals: Artistic, Persistence. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 6000 gp. A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (100 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (100 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (900 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (900 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (900 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (6000 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (500 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1200 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1500 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (6000 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (500 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (1200 gp). Solid gold idol (1200 gp).

Description: A 5'8" eastern woman, she wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with brown lining and desert motifs. She wears her brown hair up. She tend to wears goggles to shield her eyes.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. She is a great chef.

History: Gifted from a young age, Aline studied abroad. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. She has gone from town to town working and never settling down anywhere, but has fallen for a local Mortician. She hasn't told them the truth, but wants to settle down with them.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and to clean up the streets

Ideals: Gifted, Fighting. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Has a crush, Guardian. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 7000 gp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (500 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (40 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (1400 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (1400 gp). Jeweled gold crown (8000 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1300 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (40 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. She has moderate length auburn hair. Her hazel eyes peer out from beneath her Stetson red hat.

Personality: She dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the north. She is cautious and jumpy. She reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: Born to a Shepherd, her father struggled to pay the bills. In her 19th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her father impaled in their home, and her mother beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. She has became unsatisfied with her lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out; and she is terrified, and will act out of fear

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Slave. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 3000 gp. Fiery yellow corundum (900 gp). Golden pearl (110 gp). Peridot (80 gp). White opal (900 gp). Sard (80 gp). Bloodstone (80 gp). Amethyst (110 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This woman stands a little under 2'8" and is a bit bulky. She is very muscular particularly in the legs. She wears a red vest and prefers blue and green shirts. Her boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her eyes are blue and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. She also has developed a complete distrust of the Bowyer profession.

History: Pearl was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her father was employed at, doing general labor. Her childhood dream was to be a Bowyer, but she was a colossal failure. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

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

Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Job, Poor. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 5000 gp. Brown-green garnet (70 gp). Zircon (60 gp). Banded agate (8 gp). Tourmaline (70 gp). Lapis lazuli (8 gp). Violet garnet (1100 gp). Peridot (60 gp). Alexandrite (1100 gp). Canary diamond (4000 gp). Black pearl (1100 gp). White pearl (70 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (8 gp).