Description: She is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. She carries with her a set of halberds on her belt, each one with a emerald on the hilt. She keeps her long lavender fur kept up in a rat tail. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. She is a ruthless business woman, a trait she acquired from her mother.

History: Aura hails from a village terrorized by brigands. In her 13th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her mother impaled in their home, and her father beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: She wants revenge against brigands.

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 110 gp. Freshwater pearl (7 gp).

Description: Her skin has the orange glow of too much sun. She wears a tan collared shirt and black skirt. She accessorizes with a red scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across her shirt. She keeps her black hair in a pixie cut. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. She enjoys reading and quiet.

History: Claira was born with her mother's beautiful face. She married young, but lost her spouse to dire rats. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: A deep hatred of dire rats; and she loathes her own lifestyle

Ideals: Gifted, Logical. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 700 sp. 3 Alchemist’s fire.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, he wears tattered old clothes. He sports a flattop fur cut. His eyes are a pleasant amber.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Kite will drive conversation. He does not mind isolation but does not hate company and attempts to receive them as best as possible.

History: Kite was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his mother was employed at, doing general labor. He worked as a nervous Merchant and found it very stressful. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He's in love; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 46000 sp.

Description: With blue face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she very much looks the part of a Courier. Her golden hair is thinning but still full. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: Prone to second guessing herself, she comes off as nervous. Eloise is a bit of a follower. Usually she is manipulated by her brothers into helping them out, but recently she has become more of a free agent.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. A few years later when the east was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well; and doesn't want to be a courier and was forced into it by her family

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Job, Family, Nature, Immigrant. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: A pudgy man standing about 5'3" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a tan coat. His long silver hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady brown eyes.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Courier business.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. A serious injury left his father unemployed and in need of constant care. His family became saddled with debt trying to care for his infirm father. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He loathes his own lifestyle; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Persistence, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Debt. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 2100 sp.