Description: This late middle aged man has the majority of his body covered in plate and is in decent physical shape. His hair is always cut to a buzz. His violet eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. Despite his manner, he is extremely passionate and proud of his job, and he prides himself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Vanuath was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. At a young age he wooed the heart of his future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. He tends to his Stableman job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and balancing his hectic life and new stableman responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Mentor, In love. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: He wears tattered old clothes. He carries with him a set of glaives on his belt, each one with a jet on the hilt. His blonde hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: A child with a great deal of dancing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Trag grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Trag. Recently a tribe of brigands attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Trag fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture; and he feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help

Ideals: Fighting, Justice, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 700 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy silver stubble. She wears a worn and beaten armor. She has a hunchback. She wears a small hat to hide her balding. Her eyes are likewise white.

Personality: A grumpy gal she will invite people to lunch so she can critique them. Yet she still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. She can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: Her arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. She has had some formal music training, and achieved minor success. After a long history of fighting, Ea and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud; and she's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 3000 cp. Moss agate (8 gp). Golden pearl (120 gp).

Description: This eastern woman wears just a tan suit. Her clothes are grease stained in places. Her hair, while still mostly brown, has prominent grey streaks. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her blue eyes.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. She is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: When she was but 8 years old her parents immigrated from the east. Duvamil was born on a far eastern desert where she grew up under the tutelage of her father, an expert Hunter. She left for the east, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and to settle down with her crush

Ideals: Disciplined, Logical. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Attractive. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 310 gp.