Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. Her black hair is greasy and uncared for. Her eyes are likewise brown. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. Helja is a bit of a follower. Usually she is manipulated by her brothers into helping them out, but recently she has become more of a free agent.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Her mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her mother was legitimate. By chance she met her brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Regain custody of her son.

Flaws: Ugly, Terse, Mundane. Bonds: Poor, Family, Religious. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 220 gp. Deep green spinel (90 gp).

Description: A thin man, he clearly needs to put on some weight, but he still has a lot of muscle. He is wearing a long, green, dusty cloak. He wears a broad hat to hide his balding. His half smiles and silver eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes orcs are coming to abduct people. He is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: His father raised him in a mountain cabin. 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 Tailor. He has worked as a Tailor like his mother before him.

Motivation: Many orcs want him driven away.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Lazy. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Nature, Job. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 3100 sp.

Description: A woman with a calm yet intense air about her, she tends to wear a black poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt. Her long golden hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. She loves being with her children and actually smiles when they are around. She would do anything for them. She dislikes her ex a great deal.

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: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion; and to reunite with her absent mother

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Insane, Disease, Ugly. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 360 gp.

Description: She appears as an extremely gaunt Gnome, and stands approximately 3'3". She tends to wear a tan poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt, and her gloved hand is found clutching a longbow. Her white hair, when down, is lengthy. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She has schizophrenia that causes her to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. 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: Her arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. A freak accident while working with her Navigator mother left her crippled. She has never given up on her dancing dream.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and an old rival family wants her found

Ideals: Gifted, Artistic, Fighting. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: He is well dressed, constantly wearing a white suit, brown shirt, and white tie, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 5'2" when asserting himself. He wears his chestnut hair up in a very large beehive style do. His brown eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He lacks restraint and is impulsive. He jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: Kûga was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his father was employed at, doing general labor. At a young age both his parents were killed in an accident. His uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took him in and had him trained in basic self defense. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Laborer.

Motivation: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Flaws: Addict, Impulsive. Bonds: Job, Poor, Criminal record. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 1000 cp. 4 Smokesticks.