Description: With grey face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he wears a yellow cloak and cross-gartered brown stockings. His hair is auburn, silky, and of moderate length. This violet eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He likes to fabricate stories about his past exploits and how crazy he is, but in actuality he is rather bland. He also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. Like his mother and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Bricklayer. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Bricklayer.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs; and he is content

Flaws: Mundane, Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Religious. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears silk and lounges about seductively. He has a very tight haircut. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. A fanatic, his devotion to his small selection of gods is unquestionable. He claims to be doing their will and will base all his actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Stylist arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Religious, Rich. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: She dresses in brown turtlenecks beneath a black coat with violet slacks. She is physically well-built. Her red hair is greasy and uncared for. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are blue.

Personality: She never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: She was born at the edge of vast island. Being born in the north, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the north for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way east. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: Marry her sister to traveling adventurers; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Nature, Family. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 300 sp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (300 gp).

Description: A 5'11" western woman, she is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. She is bald on top and has large red tufts of hair around her ears. She has several tiny topaz earrings on each ear.

Personality: While she acts the brute, she is far gentler than she would appear. She is ready at a moment's notice to give into her darker urges. She is a real pyromaniac and does not care who the fire hurts. She often ends up burning people alive in the fires she starts.

History: Drenna hails from a village terrorized by dire rats. She moved out east to avoid the crime she committed. She used her abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: A rival would like her out of the picture; and she is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record, Enemies. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 270 gp.