Description: 2'10" and muscular, this western woman typically wears red cloth garments or leather armor. She sports a flattop hair cut. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Portia grew up listening to her father's many stories. 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 was granted psionic powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends.

Ideals: Athletic, Philantrophist, Gifted, Fighting. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 4000 gp. Deep blue spinel (800 gp). Chrysoprase (50 gp). Deep blue spinel (800 gp). Red-brown spinel (160 gp). Smoky quartz (50 gp). Citrine (50 gp). Star rose quartz (50 gp). Chrysoberyl (160 gp).

Description: He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. With a patchy red beard and wild red hair. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady gray eyes.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk he knows how to make people feel guilty. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: Corkitron was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered poetry. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 500 pp.

Description: An imposing woman with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic left hand, she very much looks the part of a Mayor. She has no hair. Her eyes are blue and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She is irascible and easily irritated. She always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove her into the Mayor business.

History: She got into the Mayor business at a young age. Like her mother and her brother before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Mayor. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 9 years.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and expand her business

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 300 pp. Amethyst (110 gp). Coral (110 gp). Freshwater pearl (7 gp). Golden yellow topaz (800 gp). Deep green spinel (110 gp). Golden pearl (110 gp). Rhodochrosite (7 gp). Brown diamond (7000 gp). Chalcedony (20 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He sports black clothing, slightly heavier than average wear, and he perpetually has his sai ready. His wide-brimmed hat is riddled with cuts and holes. His red eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. He also has developed a complete distrust of the Miller profession.

History: Rhogar hails from a village terrorized by goblins. A gifted student he started as a Miller, but he got bored and became a Locksmith. He's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by goblins, and he desires to right it; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Job, Enemies. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 600 pp. Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). A small bag of saffron. (90 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (4000 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (200 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears a black vest with golden trim over her white shirt. Her tan leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and her black boots flare out at the collars. She has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. She wears a colorful flower in her chestnut hair. Her eyes are gray and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She is a sleazy, sleazy gal. She has no qualms about using her powers of suggestion to get people to do what she wants. To her fellows she is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother 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. One night she noticed a nearby shooting star which she hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. She has done her darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent father; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Persistence. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Family. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 3000 gp. Golden circlet with four aquamarines (3000 gp). Solid gold idol (200 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (500 gp). Jeweled gold crown (6000 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (200 gp). Jeweled anklet (4000 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (1000 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (3000 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (700 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (110 gp).

Description: Runty and weak-looking, he wears dull white sweaters, loose black pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath his sweater he keeps a concealed whip, just in case. His moppish black hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady blue eyes.

Personality: He is shy and timid. He has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. He lacks moral complications. He does what he is told to by employers but not much else. He spends his money on whatever he fancies at the time.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He has worked as a Armorer like his father before him.

Motivation: Expand his business; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 14000 gp. Silver comb with moonstones (600 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1800 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1800 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). Jeweled gold crown (5000 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (1900 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1800 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1200 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1900 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1800 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1200 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (600 gp). A miniature (3 inch) silver gauntlet, trimmed in mother-of-pearl (60 gp).

Description: He is dressed in earthy colors with a red and black handkerchief worn on his right side. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. He wears his white hair down. His eyes are amber and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He thrives on attention. He does whatever is in his power to gain the attention of whomever he deems a fit date. Joser is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his sisters into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Joser was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He dropped out of school to support his sick mother, and resented it. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: Marry his sister to traveling adventurers; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Ideals: Logical. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Mentor, Adventurer. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 5000 gp. Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (2600 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (700 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (1000 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.