Description: She is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. She wears her blonde hair down. Her half smiles and amber eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. She is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. Her parents enrolled her in a Paladin school at a young age so that she could practice her necromantic talents. She has dedicated herself to building a better kind of golem.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Adventurer, Poor. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 300 gp. Lapis lazuli (12 gp). Banded agate (12 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: An older man who wears baggy white pantaloons and a blue scarf, he is not a threatening figure. His auburn hair is cut short. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He snorts whenever he laughs or is feeling confident. He claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day he will do what he thinks is right.

History: He was raised in a mountains tribe. His mother took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. He was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of freemasons.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and he is greedy

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Nature, Rich. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: Jasper (50 gp). Sardonyx (50 gp). Jet (90 gp). Obsidian (6 gp).

Description: She wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with grey lining and desert motifs. She cuts an attractive figure and her suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. Her red hair has been sun bleached extensively. 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 trusts no one. She is not readily capable for forgiveness and her ire never leaves her. She spends most of her days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There she gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her father always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: She has passion for adventuring and risk; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Flaws: Insomniac, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 80 pp. Silver pearl (140 gp). Fire opal (1300 gp). Bloodstone (80 gp). Obsidian (4 gp).

Description: She wears silk and lounges about seductively. Her chestnut hair is thinning but still full. Her violet eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: Oriel is a sociable creature first and foremost. She loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. She can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. She is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: Oriel was born the youngest of three triplets. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and regain custody of her daughter

Ideals: Extrovert, Gifted, Athletic. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 80 pp. 1 Minor magic item.