Description: She wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath her coat. Her attire stands in sharp contrast to her spear, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a clover on it. Her white hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a deerstalker hat. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines violet.

Personality: Dara speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. She is clearly well-traveled and educated. Further she is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: Dara was born the youngest of three triplets. She graduated from the Naval Academy and went to see the world at the rank of Ensign. She advanced relatively quickly due to her good work ethic, understanding of the chain of command, and natural leadership ability. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She feels the way she acts is they only way to get by in the world; and an old rival family wants her found

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Family, Military. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 200 sp.

Description: This younger middle-aged woman wears dark leathers with embroidery, and a wedding ring on her right hand. Her silver crest is still thick. She has a dull look in her red eyes.

Personality: She has schizophrenia that causes her to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. 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: She was born several months after her father was called into army service. Her mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her mother was legitimate. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the west.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: In love, Military, Religious. Occupation: Servant

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 60 gp.

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he wears a tight fitting yellow shirt and pants. He has moderate length brown hair. His half smiles and hazel eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

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 also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. He worked as a nervous Butcher and found it very stressful. He struck the Butcher job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: Expand his business; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Job. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 20 gp. Red spinel (80 gp).

Description: With blue face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. Her fur is greying and her face has many wrinkles. This copper eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: Calm and collected, she is a well trained Sage. She takes great joy in being the best Sage in town.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her father. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her father gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her father, who blamed her for driving them apart. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: This western man dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. His clothes are grease stained in places. His silver hair is long and unkept. His gray eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. He disdains his fellow westerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: When he was but 5 years old his parents immigrated from the west. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Humans in the west were limited. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and he made a deal with a demon which lead to his current lot in life, and he's becoming increasingly nervous about it

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 100 gp. Banded agate (11 gp).

Description: A middle-aged woman, she is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time, and is pretty ugly. She has wavy chestnut hair. Her eyes are violet and catlike.

Personality: She fancies herself a trickster and likes to rely on her wits to carry the day. She cares for her older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. She refers to her adoptive mother for almost all things she is unsure about, which are numerous. She is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. Cursed with lycanthropy at a very young age, Aline 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: She has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day; and she will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact

Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Family, Slave, Criminal record. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 3000 cp. Sardonyx (40 gp).

Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she prefers to wear black pants and tee shirts. Her head has been shaved. Her fierce blue eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She is curt in most of her responses. She prefers to keep her word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. She is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. Her mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She now mingles about in high society.

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

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Selfish. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 300 gp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (300 gp).

Description: This eastern woman is abnormally tall. She is renowned for her bright grey dresses and hats. Her whole body is exceptionally muscular. Her silver hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. Her green eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She likes to fabricate stories about her past exploits and how crazy she is, but in actuality she is rather bland. As she has aged she has sought to do reparations for her actions as a youth. She is also making sure that her compatriots who never received punishment for their crimes are brought to justice.

History: She was born in the east. In her youth she was part of a gang. She got caught, but did not rat out her comrades and served her time in prison. She's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: She has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day; and she is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions

Ideals: Justice, Fighting. Flaws: Addict, Mundane. Bonds: Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 200 sp. Red-brown spinel (90 gp).

Description: She dresses like a well dressed Scribe does. Her blue crest is singed and shortened. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: This woman loves music and to teach people music more than just about anything. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. 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 Scribe. She has never given up on her music dream.

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

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 100 gp.