Description: This tall, slender woman wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. Her gray fur is slicked back into a classic pompadour. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines blue.

Personality: This woman loves painting and to teach people painting more than just about anything. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: Silent was born in the west. At a young age she loved to build and create. Her father was a mechanic, and taught her how to fix just about anything. She has never given up on her painting dream.

Motivation: Her religion dominates her actions; and she has a rivalry with the church that dominates her actions

Ideals: Artistic, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Religious. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 1000 gp. Deep blue spinel (1100 gp). White pearl (140 gp). Bloodstone (70 gp). Jade (140 gp). Eye agate (4 gp). Red spinel (140 gp). Jade (140 gp). Moss agate (4 gp). White opal (600 gp). Star rose quartz (70 gp).

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She wears just a black suit. She wears a broad hat to hide her balding. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. She will do just about anything if she becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this she is easily convinced.

History: When she was but 7 years old her parents immigrated from the south. She worked as a nervous Healer and found it very stressful. She's also a talented Carpenter, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: She's in love.

Ideals: Persistence. Bonds: Poor, Has a crush, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 6000 gp. Aquamarine (700 gp). Golden yellow topaz (700 gp). Deep blue spinel (700 gp). Azurite (4 gp). Brown-green garnet (60 gp). Iolite (80 gp). Deep blue spinel (700 gp). Moss agate (4 gp).

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He prefers to wear grey pants and tee shirts. His black hair is heavily combed to the right. His eyes are likewise blue. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: A deeply religious man he believes everything happens for a reason. He is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: A child with a great deal of singing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He left for the north, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and he is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Immigrant, Religious. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 6000 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (2300 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (1000 gp). A detailed rose, with petals and thorns, constructed of silver and electrum (40 gp).

Description: He likes to wear violet tank tops with brown pants. His skin is fair and his fingers are delicate and long. His chestnut hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a broad hat. His eyes are brown and beady.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, he has a hard time making friends. Flattery will make him almost putty in your hands.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. He's also a talented Stableman, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Slave Trader responsibilities is difficult; and further expansion of business

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Selfish. Bonds: Military, Job. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 3000 gp. Emerald (800 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (800 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A 3'9" northern woman, 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 golden hair is thinning but still full. Her fierce amber eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Sailor who has hired her part-time. She has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. In her 13th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her mother impaled in their home, and her father 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. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Dyer they were divorced and she won custody of their daughter. She worked as a Sailor, and she later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out; and to reunite with her absent mother

Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Has a crush, Military, Family, Slave. Occupation: Sailor

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

Possessions: 4000 gp. Rose (80 gp). Jade (100 gp). Malachite (8 gp). Red-brown spinel (100 gp). Silver pearl (100 gp). Citrine (80 gp). Red spinel (100 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1600 gp). Jet (100 gp). Rose (80 gp). Black pearl (1600 gp). Alexandrite (1600 gp). Alexandrite (1600 gp). Emerald (1000 gp). Black pearl (1600 gp). Alexandrite (1600 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A thin woman, she clearly needs to put on some weight, but she still has a lot of muscle. She wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty black coat over it. Her crest is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her red eyes peer out from beneath her Stetson black hat.

Personality: Her voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl she speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of her tone. Tatyan is a bit of a follower. Usually she is manipulated by her brothers into helping them out, but recently she has become more of a free agent.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Cynical. Bonds: Family, Rich. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 8000 gp. Obsidian (9 gp). Tourmaline (110 gp). Chrysoberyl (110 gp). Deep green spinel (110 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This late middle aged woman wears light armors faded through time and improper care and is in decent physical shape. With wild chestnut hair. Her fierce hazel eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She has schizophrenia that causes her to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. 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, Oriel is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when gnolls swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. Cursed with lycanthropy at a very young age, Oriel has worked very hard to control her curse. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to gnolls demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud.

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 1200 pp. Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). Silver ewer (100 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1000 gp). An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (100 gp). Jeweled gold crown (5000 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (100 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (1000 gp). Gold music box (3000 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1000 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (300 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.