Description: This fat eastern woman has a bulbous nose and wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. She usually doesn't wear a shirt. Her skin is also unnaturally pale. She has shaved her head bald. Her amber eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, she has a hard time making friends. She is skeptical of what others tell her and is slow to trust.

History: Althaea was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Cursed with vampirism at a very young age, Althaea has worked very hard to control her curse. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Tanner.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down; and she is content

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Shy, Disease, Mundane. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 1000 sp.

Description: She tends to wear a brown poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt. She carries with her a set of nunchakus on her belt, each one with a aquamarine on the hilt. Her black hair is unkempt and raggedy. Her blue unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. She loves teas. She is very sensitive about her face. To blow off anger she lifts weights and to control her otherwise explosive temper she works out a lot.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. 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. Maynild fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Secretive. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 20 pp. Jade (70 gp). 1 Banded mail.

Description: She is a mite stocky and is generally shirtless and showing off her tattooed chest. Her brown hair is long and unkept. Her hazel eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. 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, Virra is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Being born in the north, 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 north 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 east. She's since become an addict/alcoholic.

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

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Addict, Disease. Bonds: Guardian, Family. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he usually wears his yellow robe and has his scimitar always slung over his shoulder. He has a very tight haircut. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: Theriatis was born the youngest of three triplets. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well; and money/treasure

Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Rich, Family, Mentor. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He wears well tailored suits and hats with beautiful decoration. He is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. He carries with him a set of longswords on his belt, each one with a opal on the hilt. His white hair is braided into rings. His eyes are blue and catlike.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. He is a bit of a macho man and will challenge people to random contests of strength and skill, and invite them to random hunting and fishing trip.

History: Nicholas was born in the south. At a young age he loved to build and create. Nicholas liked to wander the woods near his home when he was young, something he still likes to do at least once a week. He never liked modest clothing or shoes, so he would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and he developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. 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 has money and likes to spend it; and money/treasure

Ideals: Fighting, Disciplined, Persistence. Bonds: Rich, Nature. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 12000 cp.