Description: She has the majority of her body covered in plate. Her fur is greying and her face has many wrinkles. She tend to wears goggles to shield her eyes.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage daughter.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Tanner arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. 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 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 reunite with her absent father; and to unite with her brother

Flaws: Sensitive. Bonds: Family, Rich, Attractive. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 40 gp. Iolite (70 gp). Zircon (70 gp). Deep green spinel (90 gp).

Description: He stands about 6'5" and wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized black coat. His left hand appears badly burned and disfigured. His crest is short and rusty. His skin is flawless and his red eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He constantly seizes attention wherever he goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. He likes to think of himself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: Born in the west to a Mayor, Fax learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. Like his father and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Mayor. He tends to his Mayor job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: Expand his business; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Impeccable. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 120 gp. 1 Superior lock.

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she wears yellow leather gloves, a yellow jacket, and tight pants. Her red hair is smooth and relatively long. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: Her voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl she speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of her tone. She is fiercely devoted to her father, and views her father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-sister.

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. When the war came and ruined her parents she was left adrift. She was a hard woman then and has only learned to fight more as time goes on. By chance she met her sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: To unite with her sister; and an old rival family wants her found

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Cynical, PTSD. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 110 gp.

Description: An imposing woman with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic left hand, she wears tattered old clothes. Her long copper crest is drawn into a two foot long braid. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes brigands are coming to abduct people. Any perceived weakness will be pressed and exploited. She is seen as merciless and passionate.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to brigands demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud; and she is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Criminal record. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 100 sp. White pearl (60 gp).