Description: She wears baggy brown pantaloons and a white scarf. She has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to her abundance of muscles. Her black hair is matted, messy, and big. Her eyes are hazel and beady.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. She is a great chef.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious western family, she was no stranger to responsibility. Jacoba abandoned her home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. She survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. She did whatever it took for her to survive. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Religious, Adventurer. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 20 pp. 1 Breastplate.

Description: Standing 5'0", this man is well dressed, constantly wearing a black suit, grey shirt, and black tie. He has no hair. His fierce gold eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He trusts no one. He is not readily capable for forgiveness and his ire never leaves him. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: Born in the south to a Scribe, Cimer learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 5 years.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and he is terrified, and will act out of fear

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 30 gp.

Description: He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His blonde hair is singed and shortened. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist he will grow angry at them.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the east. Through the years after Jocelyn was born, his mother became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the east. Jocelyn's mother didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and he is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Sensitive, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 130 gp.

Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he wears a robe, a symbol of the four houses of cards around his neck, and a sword on his belt. His red crest is singed and shortened. He has several tiny sapphire earrings on each ear.

Personality: He acts crazy and hedonistic. He is an amazing painter.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. After coming to the age of reason, Hirrathak 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: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and money/treasure

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 5000 cp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This woman wears violet painted combat armor at almost all times. She is muscular with a powerful set of arms. Her white hair is well kept. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the east. She enjoys reading and quiet.

History: Mialee lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. She dropped out of school before completing her studies. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Sculptor they were divorced and she won custody of their daughter. She worked as a Farmer, and she later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Farmer and was forced into it by her family; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Ideals: Pacifist, Logical. Bonds: Family, Slave. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 90 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp).

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what she was had she not made sure her armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit she prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for her hunting needs. Her moppish white hair is in a traditional bowl cut. Her blue eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

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 keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. She was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and she is greedy

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Addict, Shy. Bonds: Rich, Military. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: He is in excellent shape and likes to wear yellow tank tops with violet pants. He has done his best to style his brown hair to look like a famous performer. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He invented a lineage for himself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. His childhood dream was to be a Navigator, but he was a colossal failure. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Marshal.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Adventurer, Military, Job. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 160 gp.

Description: He is in excellent shape and wears brown painted combat armor at almost all times. He keeps his cinnamon fur in a pixie cut. His amber eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: Quiet and reserved he prefers to listen than to talk. He will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. He disdains his fellow westerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: Trail was born in the west. At a young age he loved to build and create. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He left for the west, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Athletic, Persistence. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 360 gp. 1 Superior lock.

Description: 4'1" and muscular, this southern woman has a large grey mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into her blue robe. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: She is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks her mind. She is very protective of her business, her home, and her spouse. She is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: Trained by her father for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. 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. Being a Miller kept her interest for a while, but then she became depressed and bored. So she turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: 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.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Military. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 2000 cp.