Description: He is a physically imposing dark-skinned man. He prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. He carries his fan with him everywhere and carries himself as the perfect gentleman. He has styled his brown hair well, parting it to the left. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He is a man who does what he needs to. He will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. He claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day he will do what he thinks is right.

History: Heir to a fortune, his parents put a great deal of effort into curing his disease. Cursed with unlife at a very young age, Takra has worked very hard to control his curse. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal.

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This woman is wearing a long, grey cloak, and sports empty pouches on her belt. She has golden hair. Her brown eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She is happy with her job as a Bather. She turns her eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. Flattery will make her almost putty in your hands.

History: Born in the east to a Bather, Juliana learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. She was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Bather.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Job, Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 100 sp.

Description: An older woman who wears tattered old clothes, she is not a threatening figure. She sports silver long hair. Her fierce hazel eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She is curt in most of her responses. She prefers to keep her word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. Animals are drawn to her, and she is able to talk to them.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Priest arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Salanop was born on a far northern island where she grew up under the tutelage of her mother, an expert Priest. 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: She has money and likes to spend it; and she is greedy

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 10 pp.

Description: A moderately attractive woman, she typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep green leather and dull pastel iron scale mail. Her silver hair has been sun bleached extensively. She has gleaming, smiling silver eyes.

Personality: She never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. She has all her life been fascinated with poetry.

History: Anakis lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Her mother worked until she suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. She had to support her now crippled mother and took her mother's old job. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion.

Ideals: Optimist, Artistic, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: Rhodochrosite (12 gp). 1 Magnifying glass.