Description: A plain young-adult woman, she is well dressed, but even with her fine clothing she looks run-down. She has a very tight haircut. Her brown eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. She will do just about anything if she becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this she is easily convinced.

History: Helen lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. 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 Stylist. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Stylist.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well.

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Has a crush, Family, Job. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 4 Smokesticks.

Description: This tall, slender woman wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with brown lining and desert motifs. She wears a colorful flower in her brown hair. Her brown eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the south. Like her mother and her sister before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Cook. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Cook responsibilities is difficult; and expand her business

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Poor. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 150 pp. Golden yellow topaz (600 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: Her left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise she appears quite healthy. She wears light armors faded through time and improper care. Her golden hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep gray.

Personality: She hates dire rats. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She invites people to come help in her community garden.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. She moved out east to avoid the crime she committed. After months of barely getting by, Juliana managed to ambush a major caravan with a load of valuables. Instantly wealthy, she made her way to the capital under a new identity.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and she desires to right it.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Bonds: Enemies, Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 90 gp.

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what he was had he not made sure his armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit he wears a brown cloak and cross-gartered violet stockings. He has styled his golden hair well, parting it to the left. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and he is greedy

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 1 Everburning torch.