Description: 5'10" and muscular, this eastern woman wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with feathered hat. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. Her hazel unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She is a sleazy, sleazy gal. She has no qualms about using her powers of suggestion to get people to do what she wants. She dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. Her biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. A freak accident while working with her Stableman father left her crippled. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and she has a rivalry with the church that dominates her actions

Ideals: Athletic, Logical. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Religious. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he wears a brown vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His black leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his brown boots flare out at the collars. He has chestnut hair. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to dire rats demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and he wants revenge against dire rats

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Slave, Enemies. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 800 gp. Hematite (10 gp). Moonstone (20 gp). Alexandrite (800 gp). Deep blue spinel (800 gp).

Description: He prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs, and carries scythes. He has done his best to style his chestnut hair to look like a famous performer. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady gray eyes.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating he would invite many more into his home than his spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. He plays an instrument quite well.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. He used his abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact; and seeks redemption

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 1000 sp. Aquamarine (1100 gp). Violet garnet (1100 gp). Hematite (13 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This malnourished man wears a white shirt with thin green vertical stripes and grey pants. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: His voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl he speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of his tone. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and he's attracted to the pc

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Cynical, Shy. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 700 gp.