Description: A stocky lighter skinned woman, she wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her chestnut hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. Her gray eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She speaks before she thinks and is too direct. Flattery will make her almost putty in your hands.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. Her father was very strict, and drilled into her lessons on being the perfect lady. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the west.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Impeccable. Flaws: Impulsive, Selfish. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: Onyx (40 gp). Star ruby (900 gp). White opal (900 gp). Coral (70 gp).

Description: She wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. Her skin is fair and her fingers are delicate and long. Her head has been shaved. She is baby faced.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. She cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. A few years later when the south was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Persistence, Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 3000 sp.

Description: His left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. His moppish brown hair is in a traditional bowl cut. He is baby faced.

Personality: He has schizophrenia that causes him to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. 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. He became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. In his journeys he found a malevolent artifact. He wishes to return this artifact and its corrupting influence back to where it came.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer, Criminal record, Slave. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This late middle aged woman wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty violet coat over it and is in decent physical shape. Her brown hair is braided into rings. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She acts crazy and hedonistic. Despite her manner, she is extremely passionate and proud of her job, and she prides herself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: Trained by her mother for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. She always admired necromantic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She was granted necromantic powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Job, Military. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 5000 sp. Star ruby (1200 gp). Golden yellow topaz (400 gp).