Description: His right side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a green coat. His hair is chestnut and very short. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. Flattery will make him almost putty in your hands.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. He inherited a moderately successful company from his father. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Selfish. Bonds: Rich, Slave. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: She wears baggy white pantaloons and a grey scarf. She is physically well-built. Her red hair is well kept. Her violet eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

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. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: Gifted from a young age, Neega studied abroad. Her childhood dream was to be a Interpreter, but she was a colossal failure. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down; and to end her boredom

Ideals: Joker, Gifted. Flaws: Shy, Mundane. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 160 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: She prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for her hunting needs. She has relatively light skin and is very physically imposing due to her abundance of muscles. Her silver hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a broad hat. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: Her tongue was cut out and she uses sign language. She has a small toy that she constantly fidgets with.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Over the years she perfected her riding and shooting skills. She bought a sai and has really upped her game hunting, due to her understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the south.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Addict. Bonds: Rich, Nature. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 2000 cp. Jet (140 gp).

Description: An imposing woman with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic right hand, she wears a grey cloak and cross-gartered brown stockings. Her hair is long and red with streaks of black, and is pulled back with small grey clips. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. 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, Whurdred is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: Her psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. After coming to the age of reason, Whurdred took it upon herself to study the psionic arts in their entirety; because of this, she was labeled a dark omen and banished from her homeland. She was granted psionic powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: Her religion dominates her actions.

Ideals: Gifted, Justice, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: Her skin is bronze and flawless. She tends to wear a grey poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt. She is an epitome of beauty. Her black hair is braided into rings. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: Cocky and sure of herself, she believes she is the best Cook born in the past three hundred years. She is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. She haggles over everything, upselling her goods and buying cheap. She is persistent in everything.

History: Margery lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. 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 Cook. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Family. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 200 sp.