Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She wears dark leathers with embroidery. Her red crest is kept up in a ponytail inside a broad hat. Her red eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: Mishann hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her poetry career. She enjoys reading and quiet.

History: She was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for her. It may also be what makes her so good at details. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered poetry. She hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and seeks redemption

Ideals: Artistic, Logical. Flaws: Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears baggy yellow pantaloons and a brown scarf. He has no hair. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines violet.

Personality: He is happy with his job as a Barkeep. He turns his eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. He claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day he will do what he thinks is right.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Barkeep. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Barkeep for the past few years.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 140 gp. Jade (60 gp).

Description: An older man who wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition, he is not a threatening figure. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His violet eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He is a jovial happy person, but he is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. He loves being with his children and actually smiles when they are around. He would do anything for them. He dislikes his ex a great deal.

History: Erdan was born the youngest of three triplets. Being born in the north, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the north for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way east. He has been helping groups of widows and orphans who have fled abusive spouses or lost their families to dire rats.

Motivation: Many dire rats want him driven away.

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Poor, Family, Enemies. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 1000 sp.

Description: He is a pot bellied northern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears a tattered pair of loose white pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. His blonde hair, when down, is lengthy. This hazel eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. He takes great joy in being the best Hunter in town.

History: Nazdûg was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his father was employed at, doing general labor. Like his father and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Hunter. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: Expand his business.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 2000 sp.

Description: She tends to wear a yellow poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt. Her attire stands in sharp contrast to her crossbow, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a clover on it. Her silver hair is long and unkept. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. She disdains her fellow westerners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Jeweler arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Her family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The mother sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. She saw this and took pride in her mother's willingness to do anything to win. Being a Jeweler kept her interest for a while, but then she became depressed and bored. So she turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: She is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions; and money/treasure

Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Immigrant, Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: Sardonyx (80 gp). Red spinel (160 gp).