Description: She is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times, and carries clubs. Her blonde hair is cut short. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep amber.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. She has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a woman enough she will sell her own mother. Money is her most trusted friend.

History: She was born in a small desert village. After coming to the age of reason, Melissa took it upon herself to study the necromantic arts in their entirety; because of this, she was labeled a dark omen and banished from her homeland. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and she is greedy

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Nature. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 70 gp. Bloodstone (70 gp).

Description: He wears light armors faded through time and improper care. He carries with him a set of hand crossbows on his belt, each one with a sapphire on the hilt. His tied-back hair is brown. His eyes are likewise blue. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic man, Purban's first love is himself. His second love is also himself. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. 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: Nothing but the best is good enough for him; and he doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes

Ideals: Fighting, Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 500 sp. A delicate silver chain set with a tourmaline (80 gp).

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She wears a black vest and prefers grey and black shirts. Her boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. She has wavy brass crest. She has gold eyes and a black hat with a grey feather.

Personality: She is a woman who does what she needs to. She will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. She is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: She was born several months after her father was called into army service. Her father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: A rival would like her out of the picture; and she feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Criminal record, Military, Rich. Occupation: Healer

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 2800 sp. Obsidian (9 gp). Bloodstone (60 gp). Silver pearl (80 gp).

Description: A woman of a pale complexion, she wears a tan armored body suit, with a simple grey line shooting up and back down. She sports a flattop hair cut. She is baby faced.

Personality: She never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage daughter.

History: She was born several months after her father was called into army service. In her 14th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her father impaled in their home, and her mother beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. She has been saving her money to try and buy her sister's freedom.

Motivation: She is wracked by social anxiety; and doesn't want to be a herbalist and was forced into it by her family

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Family, Military. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 7000 cp. 1 Hourglass.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, she wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized brown coat. Her fur is cut close to her head. Her amber eyes peer out from beneath her broad brown hat.

Personality: She hates gnolls. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Tabaxis.

History: Tricking hails from a village terrorized by gnolls. Before the accident, she was one of the most outspoken anti-Gnomish activists. She was mortally wounded, saved by a kind and fast-acting Gnomish doctor. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to gnolls demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge; and many gnolls want her driven away

Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Poor, Enemies. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 30 pp.