Description: She is in excellent shape and wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates her frame. Her hair is black and very short. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: A deeply religious woman she believes everything happens for a reason. Animals are drawn to her, and she is able to talk to them.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Her father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: She is greedy; and she has a rivalry with the church that dominates her actions

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Rich. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 6000 sp. Tiger eye turquoise (16 gp). Star ruby (900 gp). Freshwater pearl (16 gp).

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking southern young adult. He usually wears his black robe and has his hand crossbow always slung over his shoulder. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. He wears a top hat to cover his moderate length black hair. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He also has developed a complete distrust of the Miner profession.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. Like his father and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Bather. He tends to his Bather job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Slave, Attractive, Job, Military. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 700 gp. Black pearl (700 gp). Golden yellow topaz (700 gp). Aquamarine (700 gp). Banded agate (16 gp).

Description: He wears a black Stetson hat and black clothes. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. His silver hair is smooth and relatively long. His eyes are likewise gray.

Personality: He is a Fortune-teller first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. To his fellows he is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: A child with a great deal of music talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. His family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The mother sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. He saw this and took pride in his mother's willingness to do anything to win. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 9 years.

Motivation: Expand his business; and he will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Enemies, Criminal record. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 400 gp. Moonstone (40 gp). Alexandrite (1300 gp). Obsidian (9 gp). Zircon (40 gp).

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She wears a green coat over a blue low-cut shirt, and a broad hat upon her head. She wears her auburn hair down. This gray eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: Cocky and sure of herself, she believes she is the best Jeweler born in the past three hundred years. Despite her manner, she is extremely passionate and proud of her job, and she prides herself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father 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. Some 10 years later her spouse died after the birth of her son. Heartbroken, Heather never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her son whom she trained as her mother had trained her before.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and to pay off her debts

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Job, In love, Debt. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 800 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.