Description: This slender woman stands about 5'11". She wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. She wears a Stetson hat to cover her moderate length black hair. Her brown unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Elysande embodies much of what other species detest in the Humans. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when dire rats swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. Through the years after Elysande was born, her father became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the east. Elysande's father didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to dire rats demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: She is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Disease, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 700 gp. Obsidian (7 gp). Blue star sapphire (1300 gp). Eye agate (7 gp). Sardonyx (30 gp).

Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she wears a robe, a symbol of luck around her neck, and a rapier on her belt. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. She is a thrill seeker, she laughs at people and throws down challenges. She is highly competitive and combative.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. She was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature rapier.

Motivation: She has passion for adventuring and risk.

Ideals: Fighting, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Guardian, Adventurer. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This western woman wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her clothes are grease stained in places. Her long golden hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

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 feeds upon the attention of others.

History: Born to a Seamstress, her father struggled to pay the bills. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the west; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Joker. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Attractive. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 5000 sp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This fat eastern man has a bulbous nose and prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His hair is brown and curly. He has amber eyes and a brown hat with a red feather.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. Further he is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. A freak accident while working with his Shoemaker father left him crippled. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Addict, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 6000 sp. Carnelian (50 gp). Alexandrite (200 gp). Rich purple corundum (1000 gp).