Description: She wears well tailored gowns and hats with beautiful decoration. She is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. She has relatively light skin and is very physically imposing due to her abundance of muscles. Her auburn hair is well kept. Her eyes are likewise blue. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She likes to fabricate stories about her past exploits and how crazy she is, but in actuality she is rather bland. She is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of her. She is by nature obliging.

History: Born in the east to a Spice Merchant, Theirastra learned a great deal about her father'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 now owns her own business.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and money/treasure

Flaws: Ugly, Mundane, Shy. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 20 pp. An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (30 gp).

Description: His skin is bronze and flawless. He wears long strands of topaz and short red dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. He is an epitome of beauty. His auburn hair is thinning but still full. He has hazel eyes.

Personality: This man loves writing and to teach people writing more than just about anything. His brief stint in the army gave him the idea he was invincible and that he is the toughest man alive.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He has never given up on his writing dream.

Motivation: He uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs.

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Military, Slave. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 300 sp.

Description: He is wearing a long, tan cloak, and carries lances. His hair, while still mostly white, has prominent grey streaks. His eyes are likewise gray.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. He is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories he has discovered

History: Berrian was raised in a hard working conservative environment. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. He's also a talented Cook, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: To be a Cook again; and he seems to be bored by most things

Ideals: Fighting, Logical. Flaws: Terse, Mundane. Bonds: Job, Nature. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He is a pot bellied western man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. His white hair is braided into rings. This blue eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious western family, he was no stranger to responsibility. His father was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: He is greedy; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Persistence. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Religious. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 160 gp. Malachite (8 gp). 1 Banded mail.

Description: His right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He wears baggy red pantaloons and a green scarf. His brown hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He loves being with his children and actually smiles when they are around. He would do anything for them. He dislikes his ex a great deal.

History: Heir to a fortune, his parents put a great deal of effort into curing his disease. After coming to the age of reason, Bertram took it upon himself to study the psionic arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He was granted psionic powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and he is greedy

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Family, Rich. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 160 gp. 1 Buckler.

Description: This woman stands a little under 4'0" and is a bit bulky. She is very muscular particularly in the legs. She wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates her frame. She has slicked back silver hair. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. She lacks restraint and is impulsive. She jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. 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 worked as a Blacksmith like her father before her.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job.

Flaws: Antagonistic, Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Job. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 150 gp. Obsidian (5 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This malnourished woman wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her greataxe with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. Her brown hair is greasy and uncared for. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: Her voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl she speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of her tone. She is fiercely devoted to her mother, and views her mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-sister.

History: She was raised in a desert tribe. Being born in the west, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the west for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way north. She has been saving her money to try and buy her sister's freedom.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent mother; and to unite with her sister

Flaws: Ugly, Cynical. Bonds: Poor, Family, Nature. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 600 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He stands about 5'1" and wears a worn and beaten armor. His right leg appears badly burned and disfigured. His blonde hair is heavily combed to the right. His eyes are amber and catlike.

Personality: He is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks his mind. He is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east.

Ideals: Logical, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She wears tattered old clothes. She wears a top hat to hide her balding. Her brown unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the west. She claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day she will do what she thinks is right.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Mason hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and she wants revenge against goblins

Ideals: Pacifist, Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 70 gp.