Description: This light-skinned female wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized yellow coat. She is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. Her auburn hair is well kept. She has several tiny jet earrings on each ear.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes brigands are coming to abduct people. Her philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Dyer arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Cursed with vampirism at a very young age, Mella has worked very hard to control her curse. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud; and revenge

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 7000 gp. Onyx (70 gp). Brown-green garnet (40 gp). Jade (40 gp). Silver pearl (40 gp). Black pearl (500 gp). Sardonyx (70 gp). Chalcedony (70 gp). Blue quartz (16 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. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is lean but muscular and wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. She wears a feathered hat to cover her moderate length silver hair. She tend to wears goggles to shield her eyes.

Personality: She will rave to anyone who will listen. She is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. A freak accident while working with her Laborer mother left her crippled. She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature greatsword.

Motivation: Meet up once more with her childhood friend; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Insane, Disease. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 400 pp. Deep blue spinel (700 gp). Peridot (30 gp). Coral (160 gp). Red-brown spinel (160 gp). Blue star sapphire (1300 gp). Moss agate (10 gp). Red spinel (160 gp). Golden yellow topaz (700 gp). Lapis lazuli (10 gp). Bloodstone (30 gp). Onyx (30 gp). Fire opal (1300 gp). Red-brown spinel (160 gp). Aquamarine (700 gp). Moonstone (30 gp). Jasper (30 gp). Deep blue spinel (700 gp). Rock crystal (30 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (10 gp). Silver pearl (160 gp). Black opal (1300 gp). Carnelian (30 gp). Alexandrite (700 gp).

Description: He wears a yellow vest and prefers red and yellow shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 5'7" when asserting himself. He wears a Stetson hat to hide his balding. This amber eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. 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, Trey is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Blacksmith arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

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

Ideals: Gifted, Justice, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 10000 gp. Onyx (20 gp). Malachite (5 gp). Blue sapphire (900 gp). Pink pearl (130 gp). Emerald (900 gp). Black pearl (400 gp). Moonstone (20 gp). Rock crystal (20 gp). Jet (130 gp). Eye agate (5 gp). Violet garnet (400 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She wears suspenders and yellow workpants. Her shirt is tan, and she wears a heavy yellow leather apron most of the time. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her amber eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She acts crazy and hedonistic. She dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. Her biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: Born in the north to a Spice Merchant, Susannah learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Spice Merchant. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Job. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 3000 gp. Citrine (60 gp). Amber (70 gp). Smoky quartz (60 gp). Coral (70 gp). Smoky quartz (60 gp). Rock crystal (60 gp). Violet garnet (600 gp). Jet (70 gp). Moss agate (16 gp). Rhodochrosite (16 gp). Chrysoprase (60 gp). Obsidian (16 gp). Onyx (60 gp). Deep blue spinel (600 gp). Chrysoberyl (70 gp). Hematite (16 gp). Rhodochrosite (16 gp). Pink pearl (70 gp). Moonstone (60 gp). Blue quartz (16 gp). Peridot (60 gp). Sard (60 gp). Blue quartz (16 gp). Onyx (60 gp). Obsidian (16 gp). Blue quartz (16 gp).

Description: She wears a tight fitting brown shirt and pants, and carries daggers. Her fur is beige, silky, and of moderate length. Her copper eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. When she's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, she's doing singing.

History: A powerful brothel owner made her what she is. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She now spends her time doing works of charity.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud.

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist, Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 1100 pp. Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). A detailed rose, with petals and thorns, constructed of silver and electrum (60 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (2200 gp). Old masterpiece painting (2200 gp). Gold music box (1000 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (90 gp). A delicate silver chain set with a tourmaline (60 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (300 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A stocky lighter skinned woman, she is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. Her black hair is thinning but still full. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

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 is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of her. She is by nature obliging.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. She was an apprentice working in her mother's forge. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Cartwright responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic, Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Job. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 1000 pp. Aquamarine (900 gp). Lapis lazuli (13 gp). Obsidian (13 gp). Rose (70 gp). Moonstone (70 gp). Malachite (13 gp). Blue star sapphire (1000 gp). Bloodstone (70 gp). Silver pearl (130 gp). Black pearl (900 gp). Zircon (70 gp). Golden yellow topaz (900 gp). Aquamarine (900 gp). Azurite (13 gp). Chrysoberyl (130 gp). Azurite (13 gp). Silver pearl (130 gp). Zircon (70 gp). Emerald (1000 gp). Amethyst (130 gp). Azurite (13 gp). Hematite (13 gp).

Description: He wears well tailored suits and hats with beautiful decoration. He is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. He is portly but not overly obese. He wears his chestnut hair down. He has green eyes and a white hat with a black feather.

Personality: He exudes charisma. He is a tour de force of persuasion. He uses divination through singing.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. After coming to the age of reason, Hamil took it upon himself to study the necromantic arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Gifted, Logical. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Rich, Attractive. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 8000 gp. Amber (90 gp). Iolite (20 gp). Tourmaline (90 gp). Alexandrite (600 gp). Azurite (15 gp). Jet (90 gp). Peridot (20 gp). Sardonyx (20 gp). Freshwater pearl (15 gp). Star ruby (700 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.