Description: She wears a tight fitting black shirt and pants. Her blonde hair is knotted and matted. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She is business-like. She takes instructions and follows them to the letter. Volen is a bit of a follower. Usually she is manipulated by her sisters into helping them out, but recently she has become more of a free agent.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. 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 Jeweler. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Jeweler.

Motivation: Marry her sister to traveling adventurers.

Ideals: Professionalism. Bonds: Family, Nature, Job. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 1300 pp. Finely wrought small gold bracelet (90 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (800 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1800 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1800 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (700 gp). Solid gold idol (700 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1800 gp). A detailed rose, with petals and thorns, constructed of silver and electrum (90 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (6000 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (2600 gp). Solid gold idol (700 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (700 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (3000 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (180 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (2600 gp). 1 Major magic item.

Description: This man is very fat, and wears skinny pants and wears a pastel and yellow robe with the hood down. His brown fur is smooth and relatively long. He is baby faced.

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. He is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. He likes to tell stories.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He sought a place where he would be rewarded solely on the merits of his skills. This search led him directly into Bather work with an outfit from a few towns over. Bather work suited him well, and with each successful project, he earned more gold and more respect from his peers. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear; and balancing his hectic life and new bather responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 1800 pp. Pink pearl (80 gp). Azurite (16 gp). Onyx (30 gp). Star ruby (600 gp). Chrysoberyl (80 gp). Hematite (16 gp). Azurite (16 gp). Jasper (30 gp). Deep blue spinel (1500 gp). Lapis lazuli (16 gp). Citrine (30 gp). Blue quartz (16 gp). Jet (80 gp). Red garnet (80 gp). Red-brown spinel (80 gp). Peridot (30 gp). Brown-green garnet (80 gp). Black pearl (1500 gp). Zircon (30 gp). Smoky quartz (30 gp). Chrysoprase (30 gp). Aquamarine (1500 gp). Zircon (30 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1500 gp). Star rose quartz (30 gp). White pearl (80 gp). White pearl (80 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with blue lining and desert motifs. Her brown hair is well kept. Her brown eyes peer out from beneath her Stetson blue hat.

Personality: She has always had a great fascination with Tiefling culture. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. She 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. She is searching for what she claims is her rightful reward.

Motivation: She loathes her own lifestyle; and meet up once more with her childhood friend

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Racist, Disease, Depressed. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 5000 gp. Lapis lazuli (14 gp). Blue star sapphire (500 gp). Violet garnet (300 gp). Sardonyx (80 gp). Banded agate (14 gp). Jet (110 gp). Citrine (80 gp). Golden pearl (110 gp). Citrine (80 gp). Blue-white diamond (3000 gp). Moonstone (80 gp). Onyx (80 gp). Deep green spinel (110 gp). Rich purple corundum (500 gp). Bloodstone (80 gp).

Description: She has a missing right leg. She is dressed in an above average manner. Her long white hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. She has gleaming, smiling gray eyes.

Personality: She dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the south. She loves being with her children and actually smiles when they are around. She would do anything for them. She dislikes her ex a great deal.

History: She got into the Knight business at a young age. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Spy they were divorced and she won custody of their daughter. She worked as a Knight, and she later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and marry her brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Pacifist. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Job. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 5000 gp. Golden circlet with four aquamarines (2000 gp). Solid gold idol (700 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp).

Description: A man of a pale complexion, he wears a simple green robe with pastel stripes complete with hood. He keeps his bronze crest in a pixie cut. His eyes are likewise red. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Glassblower born in the past three hundred years. He also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: Trained by his mother for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. His mother was very strict, and drilled into him lessons on being the perfect gentleman. He tends to his Glassblower job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: He doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes; and he feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Job, Military. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 8000 gp. Golden circlet with four aquamarines (6000 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 (100 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 (100 gp). An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (100 gp). Jeweled gold crown (8000 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (500 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (2100 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (800 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (150 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (800 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This western woman is typically in her Detective uniform. Her clothes are grease stained in places. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. She lacks moral complications. She does what she is told to by employers but not much else. She spends her money on whatever she fancies at the time.

History: Born to a Bather, her mother struggled to pay the bills. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Detective hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She left for the west, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Detective responsibilities is difficult.

Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Job, Poor, Immigrant, Attractive. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 800 pp. Hematite (7 gp). Chrysoberyl (70 gp). Smoky quartz (20 gp). Peridot (20 gp). Deep blue spinel (900 gp). Deep blue spinel (900 gp). Amethyst (70 gp). Jasper (20 gp). Star ruby (800 gp). Silver pearl (70 gp). Moonstone (20 gp). Chrysoprase (20 gp). Golden yellow topaz (900 gp). Violet garnet (900 gp). Silver pearl (70 gp). Alexandrite (900 gp). Obsidian (7 gp). Malachite (7 gp). Deep blue spinel (900 gp). Golden yellow topaz (900 gp). Aquamarine (900 gp). Red-brown spinel (70 gp). Golden pearl (70 gp). Blue sapphire (800 gp).

Description: A pudgy woman standing about 3'10" has a big stupid grin on her face most of the time. She wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. Sporting a black mohawk this woman's hair draws a lot of attention. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She hates dire rats. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She is fiercely devoted to her father, and views her father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-brother.

History: Born in the south her family was never financially stable. Being born in the south, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the south for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way west. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by dire rats. Kristryd was horrified and prayed that her mother was alright. However, she heard that her mother had died fighting off the dire rats.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and she desires to right it; and regain custody of her son

Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Family, Poor. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 6000 gp. Silver comb with moonstones (900 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (140 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (600 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (3000 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (900 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1400 gp).