Description: This late middle aged man wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body and is in decent physical shape. He has a very tight haircut. His ears are large.

Personality: Quiet and reserved he prefers to listen than to talk. He will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. He refers to his adoptive mother for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Family, Military. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 3000 cp.

Description: He is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. He is physically well-built. His auburn hair is greasy and uncared for. His eyes are likewise blue.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He also has developed a complete distrust of the Mayor profession.

History: He was born in a small desert village. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Crown-heir responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Sensitive. Bonds: Job, Nature, Immigrant. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she is wearing a long, blue cloak. Her white hair is braided into rings. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady violet eyes.

Personality: While she acts the brute, she is far gentler than she would appear. She claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day she will do what she thinks is right.

History: Dalaba lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Being born in the west, 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 west 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 south. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and to reunite with her absent father

Ideals: Fighting, Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 70 gp. Cloth of gold vestments (170 gp).

Description: She is a husky woman, who typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep yellow leather and dull brown iron scale mail. She is bald on top and has large white tufts of hair around her ears. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Faral will drive conversation. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage daughter.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. Faral abandoned her home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. She survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. She did whatever it took for her to survive. She became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends; and an old rival family wants her found

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 200 sp.