Description: She is a husky woman, who is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured. Her hair is brown, silky, and of moderate length. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. 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: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. Her mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her mother was legitimate. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to dire rats demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Religious. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 40 gp. 1 Darkwood Shield.

Description: A man of a pale complexion, he wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. His hair is blonde and very short. He is baby faced.

Personality: He is a Body Guard first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: Born to a Shipwright, his mother struggled to pay the bills. A serious injury left his mother unemployed and in need of constant care. His family became saddled with debt trying to care for his infirm mother. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 15 years.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear; and he feels threatened by others

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Job, Poor, Debt. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 70 gp. Lapis lazuli (13 gp).

Description: She prefers to wear brown pants and tee shirts. Her white fur is lengthy. Her eyes are blue and catlike.

Personality: Quiet and reserved she prefers to listen than to talk. She will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. She is obsessed with her god.

History: She got into the Courier business at a young age. She helped her mother out around the business and became quite the natural. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: She is terrified, and will act out of fear; and her religion dominates her actions

Flaws: Shy, Fearful. Bonds: Religious, Job, Rich. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 160 gp.

Description: This eastern woman is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. Her clothes are grease stained in places. She wears her black hair up. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: Calm and collected, she is a well trained Bather. 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 to loving parents in a slum to the east. Yebe liked to wander the woods near her home when she was young, something she still likes to do at least once a week. She never liked modest clothing or shoes, so she would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and she developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. She's also a talented Soapmaker, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Bather and was forced into it by her family; and an old rival family wants her found

Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Immigrant, Job, Family, Nature. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He is dressed in a clean black cloak covering his clean studded leather. His brown hair is heavily combed to the left. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady gold eyes.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Modean will drive conversation. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage daughter.

History: Modean lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Athletic, Extrovert. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Rich. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 1 Banded mail.