Description: This man is well dressed, constantly wearing a yellow suit, grey shirt, and tan tie. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. With bright golden hair and a scraggly beard. His hazel eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. Anselm enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Born in the east to a Healer, Anselm learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. His martial abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: He wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and expand his business

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Hedonist, Greedy. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 700 gp. Star ruby (1300 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (7 gp). Violet garnet (1400 gp). Blue quartz (7 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is lean but muscular and wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His auburn hair is singed and shortened. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: Here is a man who knows he is the smartest in the room. He talks down to others constantly. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for him; and he doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Impeccable, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 6000 sp. Sardonyx (30 gp). Lapis lazuli (5 gp). Red spinel (80 gp). 1 Magnifying glass.

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She is wearing a long, green cloak. Her silver hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her gray eyes.

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. As long as the job gets done she does not care how it got done.

History: She was born in the east. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Millicent grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Millicent. She used her abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: She has a crush on the local Body Guard; and she's attracted to the pc

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Criminal record, Has a crush. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 200 gp. Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1400 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (500 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp).

Description: This tall, slender woman wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). Her brown hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. Her eyes are violet and catlike.

Personality: She is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. Her mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her mother was legitimate. She became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and she desires to right it; and she wants revenge against dire rats

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Religious, Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

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