Description: She wears bulky black painted plate armor. She has relatively light skin and is very physically imposing due to her abundance of muscles. She keeps her long red hair kept up in a rat tail. She has green eyes.

Personality: She hates dire rats. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She works hard and plays hard.

History: Jacoba hails from a village terrorized by dire rats. Her father was a mechanic, and taught her how to fix just about anything. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Engraver.

Motivation: Expand her business.

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Enemies, Job. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 100 gp. Freshwater pearl (11 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (11 gp). Chalcedony (50 gp).

Description: This man is very fat, and wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with pastel lining and desert motifs. His hair is always cut to a buzz. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines gray.

Personality: He loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from him. He is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Human in existence. He loves teas. He is very sensitive about his face. To blow off anger he lifts weights and to control his otherwise explosive temper he works out a lot.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. Like his father and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Stableman. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Stableman for hire.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and to be a navigator again

Ideals: Justice, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Slave, Job. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 4000 sp. Red-brown spinel (150 gp). Bloodstone (30 gp). Violet garnet (800 gp).

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she wears silk and lounges about seductively. She wears her white hair up in a very large beehive style do. She has several tiny emerald earrings on each ear.

Personality: Ermina hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her poetry career. She has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Adventurer arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered poetry. She has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and she is greedy

Ideals: Artistic, Justice, Logical. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 500 gp. Emerald (700 gp). Chrysoprase (30 gp).

Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she wears dull green sweaters, loose brown pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath her sweater she keeps a concealed ceremonial dagger, just in case. She wears her golden hair up. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She is a jovial happy person, but she is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. She invites people to come help in her community garden.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Griselda was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. 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: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Optimist, Philantrophist. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Mentor, Criminal record. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 1000 sp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.