Description: A middle-aged woman, she likes to wear ponchos typically of a light white in addition to tight pants, and is pretty ugly. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. Her blue eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. She tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: Born in the south to a Courier, Ahlyssa learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. When Ahlyssa reached her early adolescence her Human mother passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, she decided to travel. Her rounds led her into the Army with a few individuals who would become her life-long companions. She tends to her Courier job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Ideals: Gifted, Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Military, Family. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 700 gp.

Description: This younger middle-aged woman wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge, and a wedding ring on her right hand. Her long blonde hair reaches down to her waist. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: She is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends she is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy herself. She is ready at a moment's notice to give into her darker urges. She is a real pyromaniac and does not care who the fire hurts. She often ends up burning people alive in the fires she starts.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

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

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Insane, Disease. Bonds: In love, Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 10000 cp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest. His white hair is knotted and matted. He has several tiny aquamarine earrings on each ear.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He is a bit of a macho man and will challenge people to random contests of strength and skill, and invite them to random hunting and fishing trip.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 11 years.

Motivation: Expand his business; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Gifted, Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Nature, Job. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 6000 sp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears suspenders and brown workpants. Her shirt is blue, and she wears a heavy brown leather apron most of the time. She has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to her abundance of muscles. Her blonde hair, when down, is lengthy. Her half smiles and amber eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes drow are coming to abduct people. Mary is a bit of a follower. Usually she is manipulated by her brothers into helping them out, but recently she has become more of a free agent.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. Her father worked until she suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. She had to support her now crippled father and took her father's old job. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: A deep hatred of drow; and marry her brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Family, Rich. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: Just what you see.