Description: This light-skinned female wears a simple tan robe with green stripes complete with hood. She is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. She has wavy red hair. She has a dull look in her blue eyes.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. 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, Shanairla is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: She got into the Butcher business at a young age. Cursed with vampirism at a very young age, Shanairla has worked very hard to control her curse. She's also a talented Crown-heir, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: Wants a kiss; and expand her business

Ideals: Persistence, Justice. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 30 pp.

Description: An older woman who tends to wear a blue poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt, she is not a threatening figure. Her black hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the south. She uses her nature as a weapon; she likes to lead opponents to think her in distress.

History: Theirastra was born into a poor family. Growing up, she dreamt of becoming a Adept, to bring honor to her family’s name. When she came of age, she applied for a position with her town's local guard, looking to work her way up via merit and eventually become a Adept in service of a powerful lord somewhere. She was an adventurer many years ago and she formed a blood bond with her Human companion (her 'brother'). She was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of freemasons.

Motivation: She wants to meet her childhood hero.

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp).

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 greying and his face has many wrinkles. He has several tiny amethyst earrings on each ear.

Personality: He considers himself the perfect gentleman. He makes a point to always show proper etiquette and frequently critiques the etiquette of others. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Miller arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Impeccable. Bonds: Rich, Religious. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This late middle aged woman has a large black mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into her red robe and is in decent physical shape. Her green crest is heavily combed to the left. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. She has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: The child of a Shipwright, who enjoyed hunting, Blendaeth was taken on many hunting expeditions. 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 east. By chance she met her brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent mother; and regain custody of her daughter

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Rich, Nature, Family. Occupation: Performer

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 1200 gp. Black star sapphire (500 gp). Lapis lazuli (11 gp). Tourmaline (60 gp). Chalcedony (60 gp). Black pearl (400 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.