Description: An imposing woman with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic left hand, she wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her brown fur is drawn into a tight pony tail with a cross scrunchie. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

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. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her writing with anyone who is interested.

History: A child with a great deal of writing talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered writing. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent father.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Persistence, Artistic. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Banded mail. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: She wears baggy brown pantaloons and a tan scarf. She wears a deerstalker hat to hide her balding. Her copper eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. 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, Serpent is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: Serpent was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Cursed with lycanthropy at a very young age, Serpent has worked very hard to control her curse. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Fortune-teller.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends; and expand her business

Ideals: Gifted, Justice. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 180 gp. Sard (50 gp). Blue quartz (5 gp). Pink pearl (50 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This eastern woman wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her clothes are grease stained in places. Her golden hair is heavily combed to the right. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: Susannah is depressed about a lot of things. She tends to be a nihilist. The war was a terrible time for her, and Susannah does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: Born in the east her family was never financially stable. 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 now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Military. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 400 pp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (300 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (120 gp). A detailed rose, with petals and thorns, constructed of silver and electrum (90 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (5000 gp).

Description: This western woman is wearing a long, black cloak. Her clothes are grease stained in places. Her black crest is drawn into a tight pony tail with a clover scrunchie. Her red eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. 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: The child of a Miller, who enjoyed hunting, Blendaeth was taken on many hunting expeditions. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister; and marry her sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Disciplined. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Family, Nature, Mentor. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 4000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.