Description: This exceptionally lanky woman is dressed in earthy colors with a brown and tan handkerchief worn on her left side. She wears a small hat to cover her moderate length brown hair. Her skin is flawless and her brown eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: She loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. She moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep her interest for a month it is impressive.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Ruler. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Ruler for the past few years.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the west.

Ideals: Opinionated, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 200 gp. Deep blue spinel (700 gp). Aquamarine (700 gp). Black opal (1400 gp). Chrysoberyl (120 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She is in excellent shape and wears a simple white robe with grey stripes complete with hood. Her hair is cut close to her head. She has gleaming, smiling brown eyes.

Personality: She never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. She is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Apothecary arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Ostracized due to the psionic powers of her oldest brother, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Humans became a terror of the countryside. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Athletic, Optimist, Logical, Gifted. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 3000 sp.

Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a sweet of some kind. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment, marred by sweets. His silver hair is greasy and uncared for. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are violet.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. He also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: He comes from a rich southern family. He inherited a moderately successful company from his father. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: He is greedy; and retire the richest man in the south

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Impulsive. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 3000 sp.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears a blue cloak and cross-gartered green stockings. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His green eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. He is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: He was born in a small forest village. In his 12th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: He possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Adventurer, Nature, Criminal record. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 300 gp.