Description: Standing 5'11", this man 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 and beard is wavy and long. His hazel eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: This man loves poetry and to teach people poetry more than just about anything. He is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Humans.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Ruler arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He tends to his Ruler job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear; and money/treasure

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Racist, Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 50 pp. Blue quartz (11 gp). Star ruby (900 gp). Alexandrite (500 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. His blonde hair, when down, is lengthy. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady green eyes.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the south. He is an amazing painter.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a daughter. He was granted psionic powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and he wants to get laid

Ideals: Pacifist, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: In love. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 60 pp.

Description: This woman likes to wear green tank tops with black skirt. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized emerald on her left hand. She has dyed her greying black hair a little too much giving a sharp black color. She has several tiny emerald earrings on each ear.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Sybil is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: Sybil was born the youngest of three triplets. 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 Cartwright. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Miner they were divorced and she won custody of their daughter. She worked as a Cartwright, and she later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: Regain custody of her daughter; and wants to raise her children well

Ideals: Philantrophist, Justice. Bonds: Rich, Family, Job. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 20000 cp. Jasper (40 gp).

Description: A man of a pale complexion, he is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. He wears a colorful flower in his black hair. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as he rather likes the sound of his voice. His demeanor is somewhat feminine. He is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He spent several years traveling with his friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and to reunite with his old friends

Ideals: Optimist, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Poor. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 700 gp. Sard (60 gp). Hematite (4 gp). Chrysoberyl (100 gp). Deep blue spinel (1300 gp).