Description: A woman of a pale complexion, she is dressed in earthy colors with a black and green handkerchief worn on her left side. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her eyes are violet and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. A friendly and beautiful Half-Orc, she is rarely seen without a few beauties around her arms. Though a playboy in all rights, she is no lame duck.

History: Fistula was born with her mother's beautiful face. Her homeland was ravaged by war and she spent much of her life rebuilding it. Unlike her family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, she wanted to work in the city. She has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent mother; and her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Flaws: Secretive, PTSD, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 800 pp. Smoky quartz (40 gp). Deep blue spinel (700 gp). Rose (40 gp). Alexandrite (700 gp). Emerald (1100 gp). Amethyst (120 gp). Lapis lazuli (5 gp). White pearl (120 gp). Citrine (40 gp). Jade (120 gp). Obsidian (5 gp). Red spinel (120 gp). Blue quartz (5 gp). Deep blue spinel (700 gp). Peridot (40 gp). Blue quartz (5 gp). Zircon (40 gp). Malachite (5 gp). Blue diamond (5000 gp). Chrysoberyl (120 gp). Golden yellow topaz (700 gp). Star rose quartz (40 gp). Chrysoprase (40 gp).

Description: He is a husky man, who wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his sickle with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. He wears a colorful flower in his red hair. His blue unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He considers himself a man of culture and sophistication. He likes a good challenge to his wits. He is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. He was taken from his home at a very young age. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for him.

Ideals: Impeccable, Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Slave. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 6000 gp. Red spinel (70 gp). White opal (1000 gp). Obsidian (13 gp). Aquamarine (1200 gp). Brown-green garnet (70 gp). Violet garnet (1200 gp). Citrine (80 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (13 gp). Pink pearl (70 gp). Deep blue spinel (1200 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she is renowned for her bright black dresses and hats. She has styled her gold crest well, parting it to the left. Her eyes are likewise gold. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She is cool and collected. She likes to make quips and puns whenever she does anything. She also makes a point to compliment her superiors and flatter them. The war was a terrible time for her, and Sora does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. She married young, but lost her spouse to brigands. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge; and she wants revenge against brigands

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Military, Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 10000 gp. A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (80 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (3000 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (80 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (500 gp).

Description: She is of a modest build and height, but she carries herself more imposing than she is. 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 hair is blonde and very short. She tend to wears goggles to shield her eyes.

Personality: Stoic and calm, she prefers to meditate than take action. Panana 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: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. A gifted student she started as a Merchant, but she got bored and became a Navigator. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and marry her sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Disciplined. Bonds: Family, Religious, Job, Military. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: Silver comb with moonstones (200 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (140 gp). Solid gold idol (1000 gp).

Description: She wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. Her chestnut hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. This black eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. She is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. She likes to tell stories.

History: Born to a Barkeep, her mother struggled to pay the bills. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. She's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: She feels threatened by others.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Mentor. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: A roughly beaten golden orb (140 gp). Gold and ruby ring (4000 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (2300 gp). A silver and pearl hairclip (90 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (3000 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (2300 gp).

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears brown robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally he wears more armor. He prefers to carry a scythe, but if one is not available he will default to his longsword. He has styled his red hair well, parting it to the left. His eyes are brown and beady.

Personality: He considers himself the protector of his home. He feels this is his duty and calling. He is obsessed with his god.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. He eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Guardian, Religious. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 5000 gp. Golden pearl (140 gp). Pink pearl (140 gp). Hematite (12 gp). Eye agate (12 gp). Violet garnet (1600 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This woman wears a green collared shirt and white skirt. She accessorizes with a violet scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across her shirt. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized ruby on her left hand. She keeps her white hair in a flapper bob. She has black eyes and a green hat with a white feather.

Personality: She is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks her mind. Markosian enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. 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 was granted arcane powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and she is greedy

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Shy, Hedonist. Bonds: Rich, Military. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 6000 gp. Hematite (5 gp). Freshwater pearl (5 gp). Pink pearl (130 gp). Pink pearl (130 gp). Blue quartz (5 gp). Amber (130 gp). Alexandrite (1500 gp). Peridot (60 gp). Onyx (60 gp). Smoky quartz (60 gp). Rhodochrosite (5 gp). Peridot (60 gp). Rhodochrosite (5 gp). Black opal (400 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1500 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1500 gp).