Description: 6'0" and lanky with angular features, she is an attractive figure. She is wearing a long, green cloak. Her hair is silver and curly. She has gleaming, smiling gold eyes.

Personality: She is not truly malevolent, but she is obsessed with painting. She constantly tries to fill her life with painting. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Verin is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. Like her father and her sister before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Bookbinder. She then took over the family business and is one of the better Bookbinder for hire.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Ideals: Artistic, Justice. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: American accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This man stands a little under 5'6" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He dresses like a well dressed Painter does. He wears a wide-brimmed hat to cover his moderate length brown hair. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines silver.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He receives visions of the future at random moments

History: He was born in a small desert village. Like his father and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Painter. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Painter responsibilities is difficult; and he is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Job, Nature. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 160 gp. Obsidian (15 gp).

Description: She is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by her earthly robes.. She has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. Her copper crest is thinning but still full. Her gold eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. Animals are drawn to her, and she is able to talk to them.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. Her martial abilities were realized during a raid on her village. 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: To unite with her sister.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Family. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 110 gp.

Description: He is wearing a long, grey, dusty cloak, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 6'2" when asserting himself. His red hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Mayor born in the past three hundred years. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He struck the Mayor job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: Expand his business; and an old rival family wants him found

Flaws: Forgetful, Ugly. Bonds: Job, Military, Family. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 370 gp.