Description: This woman wears a fine chain shirt which she covers with black colored cloaks and clothing. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized ruby on her right hand. She wears her purple hair down. Her eyes are gold and catlike.

Personality: She is a jovial happy person, but she is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. She is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Vepar was born on a far western desert where she grew up under the tutelage of her father, an expert Bather. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Optimist, Logical. Bonds: Rich, Military, Immigrant. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: This fat eastern man has a bulbous nose and is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. His skin is also unnaturally pale. He has dyed his greying chestnut hair a little too much giving a sharp chestnut color. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He will rave to anyone who will listen. He invites people to come help in his community garden.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. 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 Sage. He's also a talented Ruler, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: Expand his business; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Military, Job. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 1300 sp. 1 Chain shirt.

Description: His right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He has a large violet mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into his yellow robe. His auburn hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines violet.

Personality: He is quite rude, and likes to deride his opponents skill and shout insults at them. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Bather arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. His mother was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and money/treasure

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Hedonist. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 44000 sp. Citrine (40 gp).

Description: A woman of a pale complexion, she wears a yellow costume with the symbols of her god on her torso. Her red hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She is quiet and unassuming. She ignores others and carries on with her job unassumingly. A fanatic, her devotion to her small selection of gods is unquestionable. She claims to be doing their will and will base all her actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: The child of northern immigrants she idolized her father. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Soapmaker for the past few years.

Motivation: Meet up once more with her childhood friend; and retire the richest woman in the north

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Bonds: Job, Religious, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: She has the majority of her body covered in plate. She has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to her abundance of muscles. Her black hair is long and unkept. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines gray.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes brigands are coming to abduct people. She loves teas. She is very sensitive about her face. To blow off anger she lifts weights and to control her otherwise explosive temper she works out a lot.

History: Her druidic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Her parents were killed by brigands in a raid when she was still a young child. The brigands captured her, and made her a slave and general play-thing. She was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to her deformed appearance. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and she wants revenge against brigands

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 150 gp. Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (100 gp).