Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. Her silver crest has been sun bleached extensively. Her ears are large.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. 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 served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. Her mother was a soldier and died while she was still young. Hillanot was left her mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother; and to unite with her brother

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Military. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 300 gp. Golden pearl (140 gp). Jet (140 gp). Freshwater pearl (10 gp).

Description: This tall, slender woman wears a tattered pair of loose white pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. Her red hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her hazel eyes.

Personality: She is business-like. She takes instructions and follows them to the letter. When she's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, she's doing poetry.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. She has had some formal poetry training, and achieved minor success. Unlike her family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, she wanted to work in the city. She has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: She is content; and to find somewhere to settle down

Ideals: Professionalism, Artistic. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Poor, Attractive. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 20 gp. A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (170 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He is dressed in an above average manner. He sports a flattop hair cut. His violet eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He acts crazy and hedonistic. He has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: Richard was born with his mother's beautiful face. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Athletic, Logical. Flaws: Hedonist, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 600 sp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: This northern man is abnormally tall. He wears a green costume with the symbols of the four houses of cards on his torso. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. His hair is short and black. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady black eyes.

Personality: Quiet and reserved he prefers to listen than to talk. He will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Valafar is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: Born to a Glassblower, his father struggled to pay the bills. Valafar was born on a far northern island where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Guard. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: Many brigands want him driven away; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Immigrant, Poor. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 1600 sp.

Description: He sports black clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. He is physically well-built. He keeps his purple hair in a pixie cut. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are black.

Personality: He is someone who is used to having a large amount of sex appeal. He also lacks a concept of privacy and shares just about everything. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and seeks redemption

Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Rich, Guardian, Job. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 500 sp. 1 Banded mail.