Description: This malnourished woman is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. Her auburn hair is smooth and relatively long. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are hazel.

Personality: She likes to brag about her accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. She is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: She possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal; and 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

Ideals: Passionate, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record, Slave. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: This southern man wears a yellow broad hat and yellow clothes. His clothes are grease stained in places. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His eyes are amber and beady.

Personality: He is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. Heward was born on a far southern mountains where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Herbalist. He left for the south, certain he would find work there.

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

Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Religious, Military. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 800 gp.

Description: A pudgy man standing about 5'10" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He wears skinny pants and wears a black and brown robe with the hood down. His white hair is unkempt and raggedy. His hazel unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Alex grew up listening to his father's many stories. A freak accident while working with his Hunter father left him crippled. When he grew older, he became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. He began work as a mercenary for hire. He would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Human artifacts is his passion.

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: She wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with deerstalker hat. She is physically well-built. She wears her brown hair up in a very large beehive style do. Her gray eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: This woman loves painting and to teach people painting more than just about anything. She is kind towards other women and children and will generally offer women help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to her.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Oriel was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. Oriel was orphaned to a temple shortly after her birth. She was raised by the temple staff to care always for others above herself and to hold her god always in her heart. She has never given up on her painting dream.

Motivation: Her religion dominates her actions.

Ideals: Artistic, Philantrophist. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Mentor, Religious. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: Deep blue spinel (300 gp).