Description: He is scrawny and has patchy black fur. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He has a hunchback. He keeps his black fur in a flapper bob. He has gleaming, smiling hazel eyes.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his writing with anyone who is interested.

History: Fragrant lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Being born in the east, 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 east 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 west. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Joker, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 20 gp. Tiger eye turquoise (13 gp).

Description: She likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather, and she perpetually has her glaive ready. Her chestnut hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. Her eyes are gray and beady.

Personality: She is intelligent and cunning, but she will too often allow her rage to get the better of her. She will lose her cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. She is fiercely devoted to her mother, and views her mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-brother.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her mother. Her father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her father was legitimate. By chance she met her brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent mother; and she has a rivalry with the church that dominates her actions

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, Religious. Occupation: Server

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 130 gp.

Description: This tall, slender woman wears just a brown suit. She wears a small hat to hide her balding. Her eyes are copper and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She is business-like. She takes instructions and follows them to the letter. She works hard and plays hard.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. A freak accident while working with her Priest mother left her crippled. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: A deep hatred of brigands; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by brigands, and she desires to right it

Ideals: Professionalism, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Hedonist, Disease. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: She is lean but muscular and dresses in black turtlenecks beneath a white coat with brown slacks. She is bald on top and has large red tufts of hair around her ears. Her ears are large.

Personality: Quiet and reserved she prefers to listen than to talk. She will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. She is a bit of a macho woman and will challenge people to random contests of strength and skill, and invite them to random hunting and fishing trip.

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. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and she's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Disease. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She tends to wear a large white jacket. Her hair is cut close to her head. This green eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic woman, Kithri's first love is herself. Her second love is also herself. She will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: Kithri hails from a village terrorized by brigands. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a son. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to brigands demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found; and her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, In love, Family. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 20 gp. 1 Banded mail.