Description: An older woman who is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time, she is not a threatening figure. Her moppish white hair is in a traditional bowl cut. Her fierce gray eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Beatrice embodies much of what other species detest in the Half-Elves. She has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. 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: Wants her loneliness to end; and to settle down with her crush

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Has a crush. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 10 pp. Tiger eye turquoise (8 gp).

Description: She wears a robe, a symbol of luck around her neck, and a halberd on her belt. She is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly halberds and ceremonial daggers. She has no crest. Her eyes are red.

Personality: She has schizophrenia that causes her to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. She is used to getting what she wants. In part because she is a meticulous planner.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. Thava was a troubled youth. She spent her days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent her evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Thava decided she wanted neither the life of her mother nor that of the evil petty criminals she associated with. During her early adolescence, she took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. She used her abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: She will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact; and she is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions

Ideals: Fighting, Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 300 sp. 3 Holy water.

Description: This woman is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of her veins is visible when she is not flexing. Her shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for her due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. Her chestnut hair is still thick. Her brown eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating she would invite many more into her home than her spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. Animals are drawn to her, and she is able to talk to them.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. Her necromantic abilities were realized during a raid on her village. She was granted necromantic powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: Her religion dominates her actions; and she is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Philantrophist, Gifted. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: Coral (60 gp).

Description: This man is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing white cape and mantle trimmed with soft pastel waves gently in the breeze, and sports empty pouches on his belt. He keeps his golden hair in a pixie cut. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk he knows how to make people feel guilty. A true patriot, Krakhorn would do anything for his country. He is fiercely protective of his fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: He got into the Fortune-teller business at a young age. He always admired divine-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Fortune-teller for the past few years.

Motivation: He is greedy; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Rich, Military, Job. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 370 gp. 1 Silk rope.