Description: He is in excellent shape and dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. He keeps his long silver crest kept up in a rat tail. His eyes are gold and catlike.

Personality: He fancies himself a trickster and likes to rely on his wits to carry the day. He cares for his older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Kerkad grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Kerkad. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent mother; and he is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Athletic, Professionalism. Bonds: Family, Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp).

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His hair, while still mostly silver, has prominent grey streaks. His eyes are brown and beady.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and retire the richest man in the south

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted, Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Banded mail. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy brown stubble. He wears a tan costume with the symbols of strength on his torso. He has a hunchback. His hair is always cut to a buzz. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk he knows how to make people feel guilty. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. His family was turned out during the war. He and his family wandered east to less war torn lands. 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 feels kind of lost in life.

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed, PTSD. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 80 gp.

Description: She very much looks the part of a Unemployed. She cuts an attractive figure and her suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. Her golden hair is cut short. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are gray.

Personality: She is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks her mind. She receives visions of the future at random moments

History: Born in the south to a Unemployed, Oda learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. 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 Unemployed. She has achieved small success as a Unemployed.

Motivation: Expand her business; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Job, Attractive. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 500 sp.