Description: This southern woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with her rolled up shirt sleeves this gives her a very relaxed look. Her hair is blonde and curly. Her eyes are likewise hazel. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She resents people who mock her appearance or her, so she has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. She is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. A freak accident while working with her Crown-heir father left her crippled. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Regain custody of her son; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother

Flaws: Ugly, Lazy, Mundane, Disease. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: Her left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise she appears quite healthy. She is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by her earthly robes.. She has slicked back golden hair. Her eyes are likewise green.

Personality: Sariel is a sociable creature first and foremost. She loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. She can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. She is accommodating to her spouse and as such limits her hospitality. She is brave and levelheaded in the face of danger and has proven herself a capable leader.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. She was a friend to animals and a trickster. In her defense of animals however she would do severe harm to people. Some 7 years later her spouse died after the birth of her son. Heartbroken, Sariel never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her son whom she trained as her father had trained her before.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the north; and her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Extrovert, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, In love, Nature. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 60 gp.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy silver stubble. He wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty tan coat over it. He has a hunchback. His silver hair is smooth and relatively long. His brown eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with dancing. He constantly tries to fill his life with dancing. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Courier but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: A powerful brothel owner made him what he is. Enialis abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. When he grew older, he became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. He began work as a mercenary for hire. He would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and to reunite with his old friends

Ideals: Artistic, Pacifist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Mentor, Adventurer. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 50 gp. 3 Holy water.

Description: She is an average looking northern female in her early mid-life. She dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over her head. She has shaved her head bald. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: She was born several months after her father was called into army service. In her youth she was part of a gang. She got caught, but did not rat out her comrades and served her time in prison. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: Her religion dominates her actions; and she has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day

Bonds: Attractive, Guardian, Religious, Military, Criminal record. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 200 gp.