Description: This late middle aged woman is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time and is in decent physical shape. She wears a small hat to hide her balding. 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 likes to brag about her accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. She has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. While she appears to be a normal Human, she's... not quite right. Perhaps she's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that she plain doesn't fit in. 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.

Ideals: Passionate, Logical. Flaws: Insomniac, Antagonistic, Insane. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 400 gp. Brown-green garnet (50 gp). Black pearl (600 gp). Rose (80 gp). 1 Breastplate. 1 Masterwork studded leather. 1 Masterwork Light steel shield.

Description: She prefers to wear flannel, but does not cut a very imposing figure. She walks with a slouch but will stand straight to her full 5'5" when asserting herself. She keeps her long blonde hair kept up in a rat tail. Her ears are large.

Personality: Quiet and reserved she prefers to listen than to talk. She will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: A child with a great deal of poetry talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. She moved out west to avoid the crime she committed. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: She has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day; and she feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 200 gp. Aquamarine (1300 gp). Deep blue spinel (1300 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1300 gp).

Description: This tall, slender woman wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty violet coat over it. She has chestnut hair. Her eyes are a pleasant green.

Personality: She snorts whenever she laughs or is feeling confident. She does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for her. She lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Merchant arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. A few years later when the east was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She spent several years traveling with her friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: She desires power and/or immortality; and her religion dominates her actions

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Adventurer, Religious. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 20000 cp. Star rose quartz (30 gp). Alexandrite (1500 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. His hair is cut close to his head. His eyes are violet and beady.

Personality: He is witty, but his monotone delivery comes off as unnerving He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: He got into the Stableman business at a young age. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered singing. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job.

Ideals: Joker, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 700 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.