Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She is typically in her Map Maker uniform. She sports a flattop crest cut. She has red eyes and a black hat with a tan feather.

Personality: She is a jovial happy person, but she is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. She is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of her. She is by nature obliging.

History: The child of western immigrants she idolized her father. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Map Maker hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She tends to her Map Maker job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Job, Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 1600 pp. Citrine (60 gp). Pink pearl (50 gp). Azurite (6 gp). Deep green spinel (50 gp). Chrysoprase (60 gp). Carnelian (60 gp). Blue sapphire (1500 gp). Blue quartz (6 gp). Bloodstone (60 gp). Malachite (6 gp). Violet garnet (1200 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. He is bald on top and has large chestnut tufts of hair around his ears. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep violet.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He is a great chef.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Rael grew up listening to his father's many stories. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. He has worked as a Body Guard like his father before him.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 8000 gp. Golden yellow topaz (400 gp). Azurite (15 gp). Malachite (15 gp). Citrine (80 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This man wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His cinnamon fur is unkempt and raggedy. His copper eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as he rather likes the sound of his voice. His demeanor is somewhat feminine. Lone enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Born to a Barkeep, his father struggled to pay the bills. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and retire the richest man in the north

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: Banded agate (14 gp). Jade (150 gp). Lapis lazuli (14 gp). Coral (150 gp). Banded agate (14 gp). Citrine (20 gp). Alexandrite (1200 gp). Red garnet (150 gp). Chalcedony (20 gp). Black pearl (1200 gp). Eye agate (14 gp). Violet garnet (1200 gp). Black pearl (1200 gp). Violet garnet (1200 gp). Sardonyx (20 gp). Brown-green garnet (150 gp). Aquamarine (1200 gp). Eye agate (14 gp). Freshwater pearl (14 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: Standing 4'11", this woman likes to wear yellow tank tops with black skirt. Her white hair is lengthy. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is irritable and easily angered. She is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use her stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. She never wears the same outfit twice, unless she absolutely has to.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. 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 is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Insane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Mentor, Adventurer. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 4000 gp. Coral (130 gp). Sardonyx (30 gp). Obsidian (7 gp). Emerald (1300 gp). Star rose quartz (30 gp).

Description: This late middle aged woman wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle and is in decent physical shape. Her hair is long and white with streaks of silver, and is pulled back with small tan clips. Her fierce amber eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. A friendly and beautiful Gnome, she is rarely seen without a few beauties around her arms. Though a playboy in all rights, she is no lame duck.

History: Nyx was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her father was employed at, doing general labor. At a young age she wooed the heart of her future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. Some 3 years later her spouse died after the birth of her son. Heartbroken, Nyx never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her son whom she trained as her father had trained her before.

Motivation: She is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and retire the richest woman in the east

Flaws: Sensitive. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, In love. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 8000 gp. Deep blue spinel (600 gp). Eye agate (9 gp). Onyx (50 gp). Sardonyx (50 gp). Black opal (500 gp). Jasper (50 gp). Freshwater pearl (9 gp).

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. He has done his best to style his chestnut hair to look like a famous performer. His eyes are brown.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. 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: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Ideals: Joker, Fighting. Bonds: Religious, Military, Guardian. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 4000 gp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (300 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1200 gp). Jeweled gold crown (5000 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (400 gp). Solid gold idol (300 gp). A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (40 gp). Jeweled gold crown (5000 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (40 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (40 gp). Old masterpiece painting (400 gp). Gold music box (3000 gp). Solid gold idol (300 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (40 gp). An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (90 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (40 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (1300 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (300 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (40 gp). An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (90 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She stands about 3'9" and wears a tight fitting grey shirt and pants. Her left hand appears badly burned and disfigured. She has moderate length auburn hair. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. She is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: Heir to a fortune, her parents put a great deal of effort into curing her disease. She was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

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

Flaws: Terse, Shy, Disease. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 5000 gp. Rock crystal (80 gp). Eye agate (14 gp). Golden yellow topaz (200 gp). Deep blue spinel (200 gp). Moss agate (14 gp). Rose (80 gp). Aquamarine (200 gp). Star rose quartz (80 gp). Rock crystal (80 gp). Aquamarine (200 gp). Pink pearl (110 gp). Deep blue spinel (200 gp). Aquamarine (200 gp). Moss agate (14 gp). Fire opal (500 gp). Jasper (80 gp). Sardonyx (80 gp). Sardonyx (80 gp). Black opal (500 gp). Emerald (500 gp). 1 Medium magic item.