Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She wears long strands of opal and short black dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. Her white hair is braided into rings. She has several tiny opal earrings on each ear.

Personality: She has a good heart but also a terrible temper. She will forgive often but not before yelling and berating someone for whatever they have done wrong. She is a ruthless business woman, a trait she acquired from her mother.

History: She was born several months after her mother was called into army service. In her 19th 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 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: She is terrified, and will act out of fear; and she is wracked by social anxiety

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Military. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 800 gp. Carnelian (60 gp). Smoky quartz (60 gp). Freshwater pearl (12 gp). Alexandrite (1000 gp). 4 Antitoxin. 1 Everburning torch. 2 Holy water.

Description: He has the majority of his body covered in plate. He wears his purple hair up. His eyes are red.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of brigands once and for all.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. Being born in the east, 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 east 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 south. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and regain custody of his son

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Enemies, Military, Family. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 1100 gp. Star ruby (1200 gp).

Description: This exceptionally lanky woman is well dressed, but even with her fine clothing she looks run-down. She has done her best to style her chestnut hair to look like a famous performer. Her eyes are a pleasant blue.

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 is cautious and jumpy. She reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her mother gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her mother, who blamed her for driving them apart. She has became unsatisfied with her lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: She desires power and/or immortality; and she is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic, Fearful, Insane. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 30 gp. Silver pearl (90 gp).

Description: She wears a large hat to cast shadows over her face and wears ponchos to better hide her body. She is physically well-built. Her white hair, when down, is lengthy. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

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. A true patriot, Kallista would do anything for her country. She is fiercely protective of her fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. Like her mother and her sister before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Unemployed. She found several beat up suits of armor and, cannibalizing spare parts, she put together a working one.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Ideals: Persistence, Gifted. Bonds: Military, Job. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 600 sp.