Description: She stands about 6'1" and wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. Her left hand appears badly burned and disfigured. Her auburn hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a small hat. Her gray eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She runs her personal life as if detached from it. She organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits she will get from it. Animals are drawn to her, and she is able to talk to them.

History: Gifted from a young age, Egelina studied abroad. She made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. In her journeys she found a malevolent artifact. She wishes to return this artifact and its corrupting influence back to where it came.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Selfish, Disease. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 5000 sp.

Description: This malnourished woman tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with her rolled up shirt sleeves this gives her a very relaxed look. She is bald on top and has large red tufts of hair around her ears. Her eyes are hazel and beady.

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 tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: She was born at the edge of vast mountains. She became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. Since then, she has sought to make the best of life.

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: Persistence, Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Nature, Criminal record. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 100 pp. Malachite (8 gp). Moonstone (60 gp). Alexandrite (1000 gp). Blue quartz (8 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A moderately attractive man, he is dressed in a clean black cloak covering his clean studded leather. He wears his auburn hair up in a very large beehive style do. His violet unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: Born in the east to a Miller, Bernard learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. He sought a place where he would be rewarded solely on the merits of his skills. This search led him directly into Miller work with an outfit from a few towns over. Miller work suited him well, and with each successful project, he earned more gold and more respect from his peers. He's also a talented Blacksmith, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and balancing his hectic life and new miller responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Disease, Forgetful. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 40000 cp. Violet garnet (700 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (12 gp). Chalcedony (60 gp).

Description: This fat western man has a bulbous nose and wears skinny pants and wears a pastel and green robe with the hood down. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His hair is black and curly. His eyes are amber and catlike.

Personality: He seems absolutely devoid of it. He stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. He is always in debt, since he spends his money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. Because his mother participated in the massacre of their homeland, orcs burned their ranch to the ground and forced them out. He was preparing to flee to the west, but the outbreak of war prevented him and his father from journeying west to reunite his family. He left for the west, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and revenge

Flaws: Ugly, Mundane, Impulsive. Bonds: Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 300 gp. Golden yellow topaz (200 gp).