Description: This dark-skinned female prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. She carries her fan with her everywhere and carries herself as the perfect lady. She is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. Her golden hair is knotted and matted. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Melissa was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. Her father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: To prove her worth to the world; and money/treasure

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Mentor. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 1 Half-Plate.

Description: He wears a violet feathered hat and violet clothes. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. This green eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. His job bores him to no end. He has decided to make it more interesting.

History: His druidic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His parents enrolled him in a Paladin school at a young age so that he could practice his druidic talents. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by dire rats. Alex was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the dire rats.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and obtaining odd cultural human artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Professionalism, Gifted, Optimist. Bonds: Adventurer, Criminal record, Enemies. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She wears baggy green pantaloons and a blue scarf. Her blonde hair is singed and shortened. She is baby faced.

Personality: A grumpy gal she will invite people to lunch so she can critique them. Yet she still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. She is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her mother always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. She moved out north to avoid the crime she committed. After a long history of fighting, Mary and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: She feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help.

Ideals: Athletic, Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He is a pot bellied southern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He is dressed in an above average manner. He has a long silver beard with little hanging trinkets. His gray eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. He cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist he will grow angry at them.

History: Born in the south his family was never financially stable. His mother disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his mother, he was betrayed dozens of times. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Family. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 800 gp. Banded agate (13 gp). Rhodochrosite (13 gp). Black pearl (800 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (13 gp).