Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, 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 sports chestnut long hair. Her eyes are violet and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. She also hits on women, regardless of circumstances.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. In her 15th year, her parents were killed by a dire rats raid, leaving Elizabeth alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: Many dire rats want her driven away; and she wants revenge against dire rats

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Enemies, Has a crush. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 800 gp. Fire opal (1600 gp). Rose (50 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (1600 gp). Jade (130 gp).

Description: This dark-skinned male is dressed in an above average manner. He is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. His tied-back hair is golden. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He plays an instrument quite well.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He was granted divine powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and balancing his hectic life and new mortician responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Poor. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: She tends to wear a large pastel jacket. She has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. Her auburn hair is wavy and long. She has a dull look in her green eyes.

Personality: Eloise speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. She is clearly well-traveled and educated. When she's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, she's doing painting.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. At some point she was captured by drow and was tortured. After several years of this she finally managed to escape. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by drow. Eloise was horrified and prayed that her mother was alright. However, she heard that her mother had died fighting off the drow.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by drow, and she desires to right it; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Impeccable, Artistic, Logical. Bonds: Slave, Enemies. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 700 gp. Chrysoberyl (90 gp). Aquamarine (1600 gp).

Description: 5'2" and muscular, this eastern woman wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized brown coat. Her red hair is cut short. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. She has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a woman enough she will sell her own mother. Money is her most trusted friend.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. She inherited a moderately successful company from her mother. Under her leadership it has flourished, and using capital from her venture she effectively owns an entire region. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: She is greedy; and money/treasure

Ideals: Athletic, Joker. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 70 pp.