Description: This northern woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. Her long white hair reaches down to her waist. Her eyes are brown.

Personality: She is quite rude, and likes to deride her opponents skill and shout insults at them. She is always in debt, since she spends her money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: Vorka was born the youngest of three triplets. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. By chance she met her brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Impulsive. Bonds: Family, Rich. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 8000 cp.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He typically wears red cloth garments or leather armor. His tied-back hair is chestnut. His blue eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. A fanatic, his devotion to his small selection of gods is unquestionable. He claims to be doing their will and will base all his actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Religious, Immigrant. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 150 gp.

Description: She wears a black shirt, with a white mid length skirt with white tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. She carries with her a set of sickles on her belt, each one with a opal on the hilt. Her hair is silver and curly. She has several tiny opal earrings on each ear.

Personality: She considers herself the perfect lady. She makes a point to always show proper etiquette and frequently critiques the etiquette of others. She feeds upon the attention of others.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Courier arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Before the accident, she was one of the most outspoken anti-Half-Orc activists. She was mortally wounded, saved by a kind and fast-acting Half-Orc doctor. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Fighting, Impeccable. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Rich, Attractive. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 3 Thunderstones.

Description: This late middle aged man wears a tan cloak and cross-gartered grey stockings and is in decent physical shape. He has golden hair. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: His martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He always admired martial-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. 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: To get a good night's sleep; and money/treasure

Ideals: Joker, Gifted. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Religious, Rich. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. Her brown hair is braided into rings. Her brown eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation she is generally quite perceptive. She notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. She also hits on women, regardless of circumstances.

History: Verna lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Her father disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her father, she was betrayed dozens of times. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the west; and an old rival family wants her found

Ideals: Athletic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Has a crush, Family. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 110 gp. 4 Smokesticks.