Description: A woman with a calm yet intense air about her, she is well dressed, constantly wearing a brown suit, black shirt, and white tie. She wears her auburn hair up. Her eyes are amber and she is always smoking a pipe.

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 receives visions of the future at random moments

History: Gifted from a young age, Juliana studied abroad. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 10 years.

Motivation: She will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Persistence, Gifted. Bonds: Mentor, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This slender woman stands about 5'7". She wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. She usually doesn't wear a shirt. With bright chestnut hair. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. 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, Geva is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: She got into the Merchant business at a young age. Like her father and her brother before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Merchant. She then took over the family business and is one of the better Merchant for hire.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and she wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away

Ideals: Gifted, Justice. Flaws: Greedy. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 200 gp. Red-brown spinel (60 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she wears well tailored gowns and hats with beautiful decoration. She is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. Her long black hair reaches down to her waist. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her brown eyes.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She lacks moral complications. She does what she is told to by employers but not much else. She spends her money on whatever she fancies at the time.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Her childhood dream was to be a Ploughman, but she was a colossal failure. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Ideals: Philantrophist, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Job. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 500 gp. Jasper (80 gp). Peridot (80 gp). Red garnet (40 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking northern young adult. He wears a tight fitting green shirt and pants. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His blonde hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: His psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. After coming to the age of reason, Robert took it upon himself to study the psionic arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Ideals: Persistence, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Slave, Religious. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 800 gp. Eye agate (14 gp). Coral (160 gp). 1 Minor magic item.