Description: The dark-skinned woman stands 5'4" and wears a large hat to cast shadows over her face and wears ponchos to better hide her body. She wears a Stetson hat to cover her moderate length black hair. She is baby faced.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. She feeds upon the attention of others.

History: Her divine talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She has never given up on her writing dream.

Motivation: She is terrified, and will act out of fear; and she feels threatened by others

Ideals: Gifted, Athletic, Artistic. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: She prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for her hunting needs. She carries with her a set of tridents on her belt, each one with a opal on the hilt. She wears her golden hair up in a very large beehive style do. Her eyes are blue and beady.

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. Around other people she will do her best to conceal her emotions and appear jolly.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her sons to still be retired.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Rich, Family, Military. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 5000 cp. Rose (20 gp).

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He tends to wear a brown poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. His brown hair is heavily combed to the right. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. His job bores him to no end. He has decided to make it more interesting.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Conrad grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Conrad. He used his abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark.

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Adventurer, Criminal record, Slave. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: A man of a pale complexion, he wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His auburn hair is thinning but still full. His eyes are hazel.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. Through the years after Erdan was born, his father became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the east. Erdan's father didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He spent several years traveling with his friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and he desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Mentor. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 5000 cp.

Description: This tall, slender man wears just a violet suit. His hair is long and red with streaks of chestnut, and is pulled back with small violet clips. His beard is chestnut, braided, and well cared for. His eyes are green and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He goes out his way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one he won't accept into his heart. He would rather hide behind his crafts than deal with other people.

History: Gifted from a young age, Gilbert studied abroad. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He has never given up on his writing dream.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Optimist, Artistic, Gifted, Logical. Flaws: Shy. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 20 gp. 1 Silk rope.

Description: He wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with Stetson hat. He has relatively light skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. His golden hair is smooth and relatively long. His green eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Map Maker business.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. While he appears to be a normal Gnome, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. 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: Marry his sister to traveling adventurers; and regain custody of his son

Ideals: Disciplined, Persistence. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Mentor, Family. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 8000 cp.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, she wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath her coat. Her black hair is thinning but still full. Her violet eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

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 never wears the same outfit twice, unless she absolutely has to.

History: When she was but 4 years old her parents immigrated from the east. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered singing. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She is a husky woman, who likes to wear ponchos typically of a light tan in addition to tight pants. Her red hair is wavy and long. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her brown eyes.

Personality: She hates dire rats. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. She haggles over everything, upselling her goods and buying cheap. She is persistent in everything.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. She was an apprentice working in her mother's forge. She has worked as a Crown-heir like her mother before her.

Motivation: She seems to be bored by most things; and she is content

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Religious, Job. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 1900 sp. 1 Simple lock. 1 Climber’s kit. 1 Crowbar.

Description: A man of a pale complexion, he tends to wear a tan poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. His auburn hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. Energy wise he seems alert and responsive.

History: He was born in the south. Laucian was born on a far southern mountains where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Farmer. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Ideals: Joker, Professionalism, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Immigrant, Religious. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 240 gp. Azurite (16 gp). Golden pearl (50 gp).