Description: He wears suspenders and white workpants. His shirt is brown, and he wears a heavy white leather apron most of the time. He carries a battered bastard sword and tarnished sai as well. His white hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His green eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic, Insomniac. Bonds: Military, Religious. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 100 sp. White pearl (40 gp).

Description: This late middle aged woman wears a worn and beaten armor and is in decent physical shape. Her black hair is smooth and relatively long. She has violet eyes.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. She has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. After months of barely getting by, Katherine 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: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions; and she has money and likes to spend it

Bonds: Job, Rich, Mentor, Criminal record, Religious. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 1400 sp. Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). Solid gold idol (400 gp). An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (40 gp). 1 Masterwork Thieves’ tools.

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized tan coat. With bright blonde hair and a scraggly beard. 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 likes to brag about his accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. He also has developed a complete distrust of the Mason profession.

History: Carrie was born with his mother's beautiful face. A gifted student he started as a Mason, but he got bored and became a Miller. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Miller.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and expand his business

Ideals: Passionate. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: This malnourished woman wears a fine chain shirt which she covers with blue colored cloaks and clothing. She keeps her black hair in a flapper bob. She has gleaming, smiling amber eyes.

Personality: This woman loves music and to teach people music more than just about anything. She disdains her fellow northerners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: She was born in the north. One day when Malquis was young, her father was sewing while trying to overcome the flu, when suddenly her father dropped to the ground dead. Her father had died from a severe disease that was unknown to the village doctor. Malquis was heart-stricken from the event, and her mother started working long hours to provde for them. She has been saving her money to try and buy her sister's freedom.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Scribe and was forced into it by her family.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: PTSD. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 60 gp.