Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She wears a violet Stetson hat and violet clothes. With wild red hair. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She goes out her way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one she won't accept into her heart. She has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: She was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for her. It may also be what makes her so good at details. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father 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. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Athletic, Optimist. Flaws: Fearful, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 900 pp. Amethyst (70 gp). Blue quartz (16 gp). Smoky quartz (20 gp). Onyx (20 gp). Bloodstone (20 gp). Blue star sapphire (700 gp). Onyx (20 gp). Onyx (20 gp). Citrine (20 gp). Rich purple corundum (700 gp).

Description: This woman is wearing a long, white, dusty cloak, and sports empty pouches on her belt. Her golden hair is still thick. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. She is an amazing painter.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. Through the years after Merla was born, her father became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the east. Merla's father didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. She has worked as a Bricklayer like her father before her.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and she has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: Rose (60 gp). Golden pearl (70 gp). Blue quartz (15 gp). Chrysoberyl (70 gp). Moonstone (60 gp). White pearl (70 gp). Eye agate (15 gp). Violet garnet (700 gp). Emerald (500 gp). Chrysoberyl (70 gp). Lapis lazuli (15 gp). Rhodochrosite (15 gp). Red spinel (70 gp). Canary diamond (7000 gp). Azurite (15 gp). Blue quartz (15 gp).

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty blue coat over it. She wears her golden hair down. She tend to wears goggles to shield her eyes.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating she would invite many more into her home than her spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. 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: Gifted from a young age, Maiathah studied abroad. Ostracized due to the martial powers of her oldest sister, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Elves became a terror of the countryside. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the west.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 800 pp. Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (140 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1800 gp). Solid gold idol (400 gp). A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (140 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (140 gp). Jeweled anklet (4000 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1800 gp). Solid gold idol (400 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (500 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (140 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (500 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (140 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1800 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (140 gp).

Description: This man is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized jet on his left hand. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He is irritable and easily angered. He is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use his stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Gerbo is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. After coming to the age of reason, Gerbo took it upon himself to study the divine arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He was granted divine powers by his dying brother.

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

Ideals: Justice, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Mentor. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 400 pp. Gold cup set with emeralds (5000 gp). Jeweled anklet (2000 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (2300 gp). Jeweled gold crown (7000 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1500 gp). A silver and pearl hairclip (10 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (1200 gp). A finely crafted rug of intricate, geometric designs worked with silver threading (10 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (90 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1500 gp). A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (10 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (1200 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.

Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he very much looks the part of a Sage. His black crest is braided into rings. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his red eyes.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He is accommodating to his spouse and as such limits his hospitality. He is brave and levelheaded in the face of danger and has proven himself a capable leader.

History: Born to a Courier, his mother struggled to pay the bills. He worked as a nervous Sage and found it very stressful. He tends to his Sage job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: To protect his home.

Bonds: Job, Attractive, Guardian, In love, Poor. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 5000 gp. Eye agate (16 gp). Citrine (60 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (1300 gp). Amethyst (120 gp). Alexandrite (200 gp). Fire opal (1300 gp). Black pearl (200 gp). Sardonyx (60 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This fat western man has a bulbous nose and tends to wear a large tan jacket. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His ears are large.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: Laucian was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Cursed with lycanthropy at a very young age, Laucian has worked very hard to control his curse. He became a Interpreter soon after.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Joker, Opinionated. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Job, Slave. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 5000 gp. Iolite (60 gp). Alexandrite (1200 gp). Deep green spinel (60 gp). Sard (60 gp). Black pearl (1200 gp). Chrysoprase (60 gp). Azurite (4 gp). Blue quartz (4 gp). Blue quartz (4 gp). Red garnet (60 gp). Rhodochrosite (4 gp). Aquamarine (1200 gp). Deep blue spinel (1200 gp).

Description: He wears a tight fitting black shirt and pants. His hair is short and dark red. His black eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. To his fellows he 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: Astar hails from a village terrorized by dire rats. 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 has worked as a Barkeep like his mother before him.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world; and someone believes him a fraud

Ideals: Disciplined, Fighting. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Enemies, Job. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 3000 gp. Freshwater pearl (16 gp). Blue quartz (16 gp). Onyx (20 gp). Obsidian (16 gp). Aquamarine (1100 gp). Azurite (16 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.