Description: This man is tall and muscular. He wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. He has white crest. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his gold eyes.

Personality: He is curt in most of his responses. He prefers to keep his word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: Pijjirik was born with his father's beautiful face. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. 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 he has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: A 5'8" western woman, she wears a yellow vest with golden trim over her white shirt. Her green leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and her yellow boots flare out at the collars. Her auburn hair is wavy and long. She is baby faced.

Personality: She is a hateful person. She taunts others and blames them for her problems. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: Heather lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Being born in the west, 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 west 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 north. She tends to her Doctor job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and to find somewhere to settle down

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic, Mundane. Bonds: Family, Job. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 500 gp. Black opal (500 gp). White pearl (60 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he wears a fancy green suit. His long white crest is drawn into a two foot long braid. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. He is always in debt, since he spends his money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: Rhogar lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. His childhood dream was to be a Bookbinder, but he was a colossal failure. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 11 years.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and to unite with his brother

Flaws: Shy, Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Job, In love. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 900 sp. Bloodstone (20 gp).

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He prefers to wear red clothing when he does not wear armor. His chestnut hair is singed and shortened. His eyes are gray and beady.

Personality: Thorpe is a sociable creature first and foremost. He loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. He can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. He is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories he has discovered

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Thorpe was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. Like his father and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Healer. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Healer and was forced into it by his family; and regain custody of his daughter

Ideals: Extrovert, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Mentor, Job, Family. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 4000 cp. 1 Smokesticks.

Description: She wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally she sports a green coat. She cuts an attractive figure and her suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. She wears a wide-brimmed hat to cover her moderate length silver hair. Her eyes are red and catlike.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. She is fiercely devoted to her father, and views her father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-sister.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. By chance she met her sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down; and to end her boredom

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 80 gp.