Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she wears baggy black pantaloons and a brown scarf. She has shaved her head bald. Her green eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove her into the Spice Merchant business.

History: She comes from a rich western family. Her mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She has became unsatisfied with her lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and she wants revenge against gnolls

Ideals: Philantrophist, Persistence. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 10000 cp. Moonstone (70 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (1400 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She has a missing left arm. She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her head has been shaved. She has green eyes.

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 is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. She haggles over everything, upselling her goods and buying cheap. She is persistent in everything.

History: Beatrice lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Being born in the south, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the south for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way north. She has been saving her money to try and buy her sister's freedom.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and retire the richest woman in the south

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 2000 sp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (1100 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (800 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp).

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 is physically well-built. Her black hair is singed and shortened. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She is a Barrister first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. Galiena is a bit of a follower. Usually she is manipulated by her sisters into helping them out, but recently she has become more of a free agent.

History: A child with a great deal of singing talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. She was an apprentice working in her mother's forge. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Barrister for the past few years.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well; and to reunite with her absent mother

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Family, Slave. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. His skin is fair and his fingers are delicate and long. His auburn hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines violet.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He lacks restraint and is impulsive. He jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: Trained by his mother for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Guardian, Military, Slave. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: Just what you see.