Description: She is an average looking eastern female in her early mid-life. She is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured. Her hair is black and very short. Her blue eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She likes to fabricate stories about her past exploits and how crazy she is, but in actuality she is rather bland. Animals are drawn to her, and she is able to talk to them.

History: Her arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. She sought a place where she would be rewarded solely on the merits of her skills. This search led her directly into Merchant work with an outfit from a few towns over. Merchant work suited her well, and with each successful project, she earned more gold and more respect from her peers. She guards a vault combo very seriously as well as the key needed to open it.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Mundane, Secretive. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: She dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over her head. She is physically well-built. Her auburn hair is thinning but still full. Her eyes are hazel and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Chaedi hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her poetry career. She loves teas. She is very sensitive about her face. To blow off anger she lifts weights and to control her otherwise explosive temper she works out a lot.

History: Chaedi was raised in a hard working conservative environment. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Body Guard. 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: Nothing but the best is good enough for her; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Artistic, Fighting, Impeccable. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: The woman speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. She seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if she got out from a pool a few moments ago. She wears a fancy brown dress. Her fur is short and cinnamon. Her blue unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She tends to agree with only herself unless someone else's opinion sounds like she can profit from it. She tries to control her temper but she can't always stop herself from what she feels what must be done. She does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for her. She lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: Heir to a fortune, her parents put a great deal of effort into curing her disease. Cursed with unlife at a very young age, Five has worked very hard to control her curse. She left for the north, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Flaws: Disease, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Rich, Religious. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 400 gp. Red spinel (110 gp). Freshwater pearl (11 gp). Lapis lazuli (11 gp). 1 Everburning torch. 1 Everburning torch. 2 Holy water.

Description: He is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright tan and black, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. His hair is short and silver. His ears are large.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. He claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day he will do what he thinks is right.

History: A powerful brothel owner made him what he is. In his 13th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his father impaled in their home, and his mother beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He is greedy; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Mentor. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 1300 sp. 1 Darkwood Shield.

Description: This southern man wears a fine chain shirt which he covers with grey colored cloaks and clothing. His clothes are grease stained in places. His silver hair is cut short. His amber eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Guy grew up listening to his mother's many stories. Guy abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. He is searching for what he claims is his rightful reward.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and he desires power and/or immortality

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 120 gp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (300 gp). 1 Holy water.