Description: Standing 4'8", this woman wears long strands of amber and short brown dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. Her hair is cut close to her head. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She runs her personal life as if detached from it. She organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits she will get from it. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Melissa is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: She comes from a rich eastern family. Aside from being a slave or a gladiator, there isn't much legitimate work for Humans in Melissa's homeland. Melissa decided to take the middle way and become a bodyguard. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Justice, Fighting. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 400 sp.

Description: Her right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise she appears quite healthy. She is dressed in a clean brown cloak covering her clean studded leather. Her auburn hair is braided into rings. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She has always had a great fascination with Half-Orc culture. She is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes her no end of embarrassment.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. She helped her mother out around the business and became quite the natural. She tends to her Crown-heir job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job.

Flaws: Ugly, Racist, Forgetful. Bonds: Military, Job. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 3000 cp.

Description: This northern woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She wears a brown small hat and brown clothes. She wears her silver hair up in a very large beehive style do. Her eyes are blue and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Balifra is depressed about a lot of things. She tends to be a nihilist. She tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: Born to a Server, her mother struggled to pay the bills. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 3000 cp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: This man is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of his veins is visible when he is not flexing. His shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for him due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. His hair is short and red. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He is curt in most of his responses. He prefers to keep his word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. 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 would ruin relationships and cause injury. He was reprimanded several times before being given his current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture; and money/treasure

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 70 gp. Red-brown spinel (70 gp).

Description: He is dressed in a clean red cloak covering his clean studded leather. His skin is fair and his fingers are delicate and long. His white hair is lengthy. He has brown eyes.

Personality: He is a very philanthropic person; he spends his free time working at various soup kitchens. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Silvo is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Silvo was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. A few years later when the east was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day; and he possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Ideals: Philantrophist, Justice. Bonds: Mentor, Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 110 gp. Chalcedony (80 gp).