Description: An older woman who wears red leather gloves, a red jacket, and tight pants, she is not a threatening figure. Her blonde hair is well kept. Her eyes are green and catlike.

Personality: She tends to agree with only herself unless someone else's opinion sounds like she can profit from it. She tries to control her temper but she can't always stop herself from what she feels what must be done. She refers to her adoptive father for almost all things she is unsure about, which are numerous. She is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her sons to still be retired.

Motivation: Her religion dominates her actions; and an old rival family wants her found

Flaws: Antagonistic, Mundane. Bonds: Family, Nature, Religious. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 11000 gp. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. She wears a wide-brimmed hat to hide her balding. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help her friends. She considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. A fanatic, her devotion to her small selection of gods is unquestionable. She claims to be doing their will and will base all her actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: She was born into a rich family. She inherited a moderately successful company from her mother. Under her leadership it has flourished, and using capital from her venture she effectively owns an entire region. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

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

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Religious, Rich. Occupation: Scribe

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

Possessions: 1000 pp. Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (100 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (100 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (200 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1000 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (1000 gp). A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (100 gp). Solid gold idol (200 gp). Solid gold idol (200 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (2000 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1100 gp). Carved bone or ivory statuette (60 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (2100 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This woman is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of her veins is visible when she is not flexing. Her shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for her due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. Her long white hair reaches down to her waist. Her eyes are likewise blue.

Personality: She is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. Around other people she will do her best to conceal her emotions and appear jolly.

History: Andraste was raised in a hard working conservative environment. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: Many brigands want her driven away; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Shy, Insomniac. Bonds: Job, Enemies. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 4000 gp.

Description: He wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. He carries with him a set of shortbows, each one with a ruby on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. He has silver hair. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He hates dire rats. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He takes great joy in being the best Merchant in town.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Enemies, Job. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 11000 gp. Red-brown spinel (140 gp). Clear bright green emerald (5000 gp). Chrysoprase (60 gp). Rock crystal (60 gp). Pink pearl (140 gp). Alexandrite (800 gp). Chrysoberyl (140 gp). Red spinel (140 gp). Star rose quartz (60 gp). Brown-green garnet (140 gp). Rock crystal (60 gp). Hematite (5 gp). Smoky quartz (60 gp). Malachite (5 gp). Red garnet (140 gp). Carnelian (60 gp). Chrysoberyl (140 gp). Brown-green garnet (140 gp). Star ruby (1000 gp). Aquamarine (800 gp). Black opal (1000 gp). Lapis lazuli (5 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He wears long strands of emerald and short brown dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. His fur is orange and curly. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: Skirt lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Being born in the south, 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 south 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 west. Lacking all sense, he decided to go on an adventure. He picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and obtaining odd cultural half-orc artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Athletic, Joker. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 1000 gp. Obsidian (5 gp). Coral (50 gp). Sardonyx (40 gp). Sardonyx (40 gp). Amber (50 gp). Peridot (40 gp).

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what he was had he not made sure his armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit he wears a blue armored body suit, with a simple black line shooting up and back down. His moppish white hair is in a traditional bowl cut. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: He is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks his mind. He takes great pride in his work and is very well organized. His planner is full of calendar events.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Pog grew up listening to his mother's many stories. In his 12th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He struck the Map Maker job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and to be a painter again

Flaws: Shy, Fearful. Bonds: Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Map Maker

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

Possessions: 300 pp. White pearl (130 gp). Sardonyx (40 gp). Amethyst (130 gp). Smoky quartz (40 gp). Rhodochrosite (5 gp). Silver pearl (130 gp). Deep blue spinel (800 gp). Amber (130 gp). Deep blue spinel (800 gp). Azurite (5 gp). Amethyst (130 gp). Red spinel (130 gp). Hematite (5 gp). Chrysoberyl (130 gp). Moonstone (40 gp). Chalcedony (40 gp). Obsidian (5 gp). Blue quartz (5 gp). Golden pearl (130 gp). Eye agate (5 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (5 gp). Black pearl (800 gp). Alexandrite (800 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she wears a brown coat over a blue low-cut shirt, and a deerstalker hat upon her head. Her hair is blonde and curly. She has blue eyes and a brown hat with a blue feather.

Personality: She acts crazy and hedonistic. 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. Her psionic abilities were realized during a raid on her village. She was granted psionic powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and money/treasure

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Hedonist, Disease. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 12000 gp. Peridot (70 gp). Sard (70 gp). Sardonyx (70 gp). Rhodochrosite (4 gp). Golden yellow topaz (600 gp). Bloodstone (70 gp). Golden pearl (70 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.