Description: She is in excellent shape and wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. She has wavy blonde hair. 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 goes out her way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one she won't accept into her heart. She is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: The child of southern immigrants she idolized her mother. Jacoba was born on a far southern desert where she grew up under the tutelage of her mother, an expert Locksmith. She left for the south, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Optimist, Logical. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 90 pp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears a blue shirt with thin brown vertical stripes and grey pants. She is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly longswords and falchions. Her silver hair is greasy and uncared for. Her blue eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She goes out her way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one she won't accept into her heart. She is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: She was born several months after her father was called into army service. Her father was a soldier and died while she was still young. Ermina was left her father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. Being a Merchant kept her interest for a while, but then she became depressed and bored. So she turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: She has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Optimist, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Military. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: Malachite (14 gp). 3 Alchemist’s fire. 3 Alchemist’s fire. 4 Antitoxin.

Description: A middle-aged man, he tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look, and is pretty ugly. His white hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His brown eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the west. 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 Performer, his father struggled to pay the bills. He 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. He struck the Shepherd job and began his own company from there.

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

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Job, Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: Rhodochrosite (4 gp). Black star sapphire (400 gp). 1 Full Plate.

Description: This man is tall and muscular. He usually wears his brown robe and has his rapier always slung over his shoulder. His white hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He has schizophrenia that causes him to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: He was raised in a island tribe. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Athletic, Opinionated. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Nature, Rich. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 400 gp.