Description: She dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over her head. She keeps her long dark red hair kept up in a rat tail. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She is business-like. She takes instructions and follows them to the letter. She is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. She haggles over everything, upselling her goods and buying cheap. She is persistent in everything.

History: She was born several months after her mother was called into army service. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father 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 now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and she feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help

Ideals: Professionalism, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Slave. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 20 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He is a pot bellied southern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. His red hair is singed and shortened. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: Kâka lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. His first spouse was a Guard, they had one son, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Guard they were divorced and he won custody of their son. He worked as a Courier, and he later adopted a second son.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister.

Ideals: Athletic, Optimist, Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 40 pp. Tiger eye turquoise (7 gp).

Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She wears skinny pants and wears a black and white robe with the hood down. She has styled her bronze crest well, parting it to the left. She has red eyes.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food she seems plenty friendly. She takes great joy in being the best Blacksmith in town.

History: When she was but 5 years old her parents immigrated from the west. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She left for the west, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Half-Elven artifacts is her passion; and she's looking for her big break

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 270 gp. Coral (50 gp). Amethyst (50 gp). Pink pearl (50 gp).

Description: A middle-aged man, he dresses like a well dressed Stableman does, and is pretty ugly. His silver hair is smooth and relatively long. This violet eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the east. On top of that he is swayed by a pretty face, and while loyalty to his employer will always come first he doesn't like to hit women.

History: He is a Maurezhi in disguise. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. He has recently attracted an admirer that believes he's playing hard to get.

Motivation: Wants a kiss; and he has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Has a crush, Adventurer. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 60 gp.