Description: This western man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He wears a green shirt with thin black vertical stripes and grey pants. His hair is black and curly. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: He was born in a small mountains village. Balam liked to wander the woods near his home when he was young, something he still likes to do at least once a week. He never liked modest clothing or shoes, so he would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and he developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge; and he wants revenge against dire rats

Flaws: Ugly, Secretive. Bonds: Enemies, Nature, Immigrant. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 120 pp.

Description: This malnourished man is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest. His hair is cut close to his head. His violet eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He can't help but pocket interesting objects he comes across

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Nordak was born on a far western forest where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Shipwright. He left for the west, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact; and he is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Addict, Mundane. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record, Immigrant. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized brown coat. She has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. Her blonde hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a Stetson hat. Her eyes are violet and catlike.

Personality: Here is a woman who knows she is the smartest in the room. She talks down to others constantly. Further she is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Her father disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her father, she was betrayed dozens of times. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Bookbinder they were divorced and she won custody of their daughter. She worked as a Herbalist, and she later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent father; and her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Addict, Mundane. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 700 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: She dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over her head. She keeps her long white hair kept up in a rat tail. Her black eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating she would invite many more into her home than her spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: She comes from a rich western family. She has had some formal music training, and achieved minor success. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: She has a crush on the local Armorer; and money/treasure

Ideals: Philantrophist, Artistic. Bonds: Religious, Rich, Has a crush. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 400 sp.

Description: She is a husky woman, who is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright tan and black, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her violet eyes peer out from beneath her small tan hat.

Personality: Ielenia speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. She is clearly well-traveled and educated. She is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. She likes to tell stories.

History: Ielenia was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Like her mother and her sister before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Scribe. Some 10 years later her spouse died after the birth of her daughter. Heartbroken, Ielenia never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her daughter whom she trained as her mother had trained her before.

Motivation: To pay off her debts; and she is greedy

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Job, In love, Debt. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 300 sp. 1 Backpack.