Description: She prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. She carries her fan with her everywhere and carries herself as the perfect lady. She carries a battered longsword and tarnished bastard sword as well. Her hair is brown and very short. She has several tiny aquamarine earrings on each ear.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk she knows how to make people feel guilty. She works hard and plays hard.

History: Markosian was raised in a hard working conservative environment. She worked as a nervous Cartwright and found it very stressful. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Cartwright responsibilities is difficult; and expand her business

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Depressed, Hedonist. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 10000 cp. Amethyst (160 gp). Blue sapphire (500 gp). Sardonyx (40 gp). 1 Masterwork Light steel shield. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She wears a tattered pair of loose blue pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. She has slicked back auburn hair. Her gray eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: Meriele is a sociable creature first and foremost. She loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. She can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. She refers to her adoptive father for almost all things she is unsure about, which are numerous. She is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: Meriele lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Being born in the north, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the north for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way west. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her sons to still be retired.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion; and an old rival family wants her found

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Family. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: With tan face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. His hair is cut close to his head. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady gray eyes.

Personality: Here is a man who knows he is the smartest in the room. He talks down to others constantly. He does not mind isolation but does not hate company and attempts to receive them as best as possible.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. Being born in the south, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the south for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way west. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: To end his boredom; and doesn't want to be a bricklayer and was forced into it by his family

Ideals: Impeccable, Extrovert. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 170 gp. 1 Masterwork studded leather.

Description: The man speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. He seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if he got out from a pool a few moments ago. He is wearing a tight brown one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. His yellow fur is lengthy. He has gleaming, smiling copper eyes.

Personality: He is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as he rather likes the sound of his voice. His demeanor is somewhat feminine. 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, Tricking is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. Tricking was born on a far eastern mountains where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Barkeep. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Ideals: Optimist, Justice. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Immigrant, Slave. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Banded mail. 1 Chain shirt.

Description: This tall, slender woman wears a tight fitting black shirt and pants. She wears her black hair down. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady hazel eyes.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. She is always in debt, since she spends her money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her father always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. As a young child she wandered into the woods despite her father's warnings against it. Afterwards she claimed she had encountered dire rats who tried to eat her hand. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: A deep hatred of dire rats; and several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge

Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive, Antagonistic. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 7000 cp.