Description: She is a pot bellied northern woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. She carries her fan with her everywhere and carries herself as the perfect lady. She wears her silver hair down. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is intelligent and cunning, but she will too often allow her rage to get the better of her. She will lose her cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. She feeds upon the attention of others.

History: Naamah was born with her father's beautiful face. She inherited a moderately successful company from her father. Under her leadership it has flourished, and using capital from her venture she effectively owns an entire region. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

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

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Insane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Attractive. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. She tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with her rolled up shirt sleeves this gives her a very relaxed look. She has shaved her head bald. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. On top of that she is swayed by a pretty face, and while loyalty to her employer will always come first she doesn't like to hit women.

History: Meriele was born in the west. At a young age she loved to build and create. From there she went from mercenary job to mercenary job. One night she noticed a nearby shooting star which she hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. She has done her darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: She wants to get laid; and she would like to get married and retire

Ideals: Joker, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac. Bonds: Has a crush, Adventurer. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: This man is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of his veins is visible when he is not flexing. His shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for him due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. His white hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a cross scrunchie. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He is happy with his job as a Body Guard. He turns his eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. He lacks moral complications. He does what he is told to by employers but not much else. He spends his money on whatever he fancies at the time.

History: Born to a Fletcher, his father struggled to pay the bills. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. He became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends; and obtaining odd cultural halfling artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Poor. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: Red garnet (150 gp).

Description: She appears as an extremely gaunt Halfling, and stands approximately 2'8". She is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright white and black, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems, and her gloved hand is found clutching a monstrous two handed axe. Her hair is blonde and curly. Her eyes are likewise amber. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. She moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep her interest for a month it is impressive.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Stacee was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. She was an adventurer many years ago and she formed a blood bond with her Elven companion (her 'brother'). She has became unsatisfied with her lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: She uses money and sex appeal to get what she needs.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Mentor, Adventurer. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 30 pp. Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (50 gp).

Description: She wears a violet tunic with black highlights, and long white pants that bunch up around her shoes. Her attire stands in sharp contrast to her sickle, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a cross on it. She has moderate length golden hair. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk she knows how to make people feel guilty. 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: She got into the Soapmaker business at a young age. She was an apprentice working in her father's forge. She then took over the family business and is one of the better Soapmaker for hire.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and her religion dominates her actions

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Religious. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 5000 cp.

Description: A 5'10" eastern woman, she wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. She usually doesn't wear a shirt. Her fur is cut close to her head. Her copper eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. Lone enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: She was born several months after her mother was called into army service. Her childhood dream was to be a Servant, but she was a colossal failure. She has worked as a Butcher like her mother before her.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and meet up once more with her childhood friend

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Military, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 90 gp.

Description: This man stands a little under 6'1" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. His purple hair is singed and shortened. He has gleaming, smiling red eyes.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: He got into the Roofer business at a young age. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Roofer. He has never given up on his painting dream.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Roofer responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 2000 cp.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by her earthly robes.. She has dyed her greying black hair a little too much giving a sharp black color. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her gray eyes.

Personality: While she acts the brute, she is far gentler than she would appear. She has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her mother. She was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. She has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Gnomish artifacts is her passion; and she desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Fighting, Justice. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She is an average looking eastern female in her early mid-life. She wears a grey armored body suit, with a simple brown line shooting up and back down. She has wavy auburn hair. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: She never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. Hadwisa enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

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. After coming to the age of reason, Hadwisa took it upon herself to study the divine arts in their entirety; because of this, she was labeled a dark omen and banished from her homeland. Since then, she has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: To end her boredom.

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 30 gp.