Description: She is lean but muscular and typically wears blue cloth garments or leather armor. Her golden hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. She has gleaming, smiling amber eyes.

Personality: Stoic and calm, she prefers to meditate than take action. Oda enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. She graduated from the Naval Academy and went to see the world at the rank of Ensign. She advanced relatively quickly due to her good work ethic, understanding of the chain of command, and natural leadership ability. She left for the south, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: She has a crush on the local Mortician; and wants her loneliness to end

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Military, Immigrant, Has a crush. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 260 gp. An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (30 gp).

Description: She is generally shirtless and showing off her tattooed chest, and carries glaives. She has brown hair. Her eyes are gray.

Personality: Cocky and sure of herself, she believes she is the best Carter born in the past three hundred years. She never wears the same outfit twice, unless she absolutely has to.

History: Born to a Butcher, her father struggled to pay the bills. She was an apprentice working in her father's forge. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

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

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Job, Poor, Family. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 600 gp. 1 Masterwork Musical instrument. 1 Masterwork Artisan’s tools. 1 Masterwork Thieves’ tools. 1 Silk rope.

Description: He has a missing right leg. He wears a robe, a symbol of strength around his neck, and a morningstar on his belt. His fur is cinnamon and very short. He has several tiny opal earrings on each ear.

Personality: He hates dire rats. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He refers to his adoptive father for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Actor arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. His father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Servant they were divorced and he won custody of their daughter. He worked as a Actor, and he later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: Many dire rats want him driven away; and regain custody of his daughter

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Rich, Enemies, Family. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 80 pp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is a paragon of her species. She is larger and stronger than most Humans. Her skin is dark but she possesses many tan ritualistic tattoos. She wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath her coat. She has moderate length silver hair. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: The woman has a huge range of feeling. She will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how she will be a better person from this day on. She cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Marshal arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. In her 19th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her father impaled in their home, and her mother 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 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: Marry her sister to traveling adventurers; and doesn't want to be a marshal and was forced into it by her family

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Emotional, Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 1100 gp. Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1800 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1800 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (160 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (3000 gp). 1 Minor magic item.