Description: With violet face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he wears a brown wide-brimmed hat and brown clothes. He wears a wide-brimmed hat to cover his moderate length blonde hair. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He has schizophrenia that causes him to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: Many dire rats want him driven away; and his religion dominates his actions

Ideals: Logical, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: A middle-aged woman, she is typically in her Cartwright uniform, and is pretty ugly. Her bronze crest is smooth and relatively long. Her gold eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: She is a woman who does what she needs to. She will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Synthrin is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Cartwright. As of late she has set up a hidden staging nest where she ambushes people she hires for escort.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Criminal record, Military. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 1000 cp. White pearl (120 gp).

Description: He wears silk and lounges about seductively. He carries with him a set of sais on his belt, each one with a ruby on the hilt. His black hair is still thick. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. After coming to the age of reason, Delg took it upon himself to study the martial arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: To protect his home; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Justice, Professionalism, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 10000 cp. 1 Tanglefoot bags.

Description: She wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). Her hair, while still mostly brown, has prominent grey streaks. Her eyes are a pleasant violet.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. She is accommodating to her spouse and as such limits her hospitality. She is brave and levelheaded in the face of danger and has proven herself a capable leader.

History: She was raised in a desert tribe. Beatrice was born on a far western desert where she grew up under the tutelage of her father, an expert Masseuse. She eventually got the idea of being the protector of her homeland from reading books, and has made it her duty.

Motivation: She possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal; and she is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions

Bonds: Guardian, In love, Nature, Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: Just what you see.