Description: This exceptionally lanky woman wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with brown lining and desert motifs. Her black fur is smooth and relatively long. Her yellow eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She is extraordinarily eccentric. 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: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Shadow grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Shadow. By chance she met her brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found; and regain custody of her daughter

Ideals: Artistic, Logical. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Family, Criminal record. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 17000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: With violet face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. His silver hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a top hat. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: He got into the Unemployed business at a young age. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a daughter. He has achieved small success as a Unemployed.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Unemployed responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Rich, Job, In love. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 300 pp. A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (80 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (1800 gp). Solid gold idol (200 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (200 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (600 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (5000 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1200 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (80 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (100 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (200 gp). A small bag of saffron. (70 gp). Old masterpiece painting (600 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (80 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is of a modest build and height, but he carries himself more imposing than he is. He is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest. He has dyed his greying red fur a little too much giving a sharp red color. His eyes are copper.

Personality: A deeply religious man he believes everything happens for a reason. He is a thrill seeker, he laughs at people and throws down challenges. He is highly competitive and combative.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. When the war came and ruined his parents he was left adrift. He was a hard man then and has only learned to fight more as time goes on. 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: To unite with his brother; and he is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs

Flaws: PTSD. Bonds: Religious, Adventurer, Rich, Family. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 300 gp. Lapis lazuli (16 gp). Red garnet (110 gp). Moss agate (16 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She dresses in white turtlenecks beneath a blue coat with brown slacks. She wears a deerstalker hat to hide her balding. Her fierce green eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. 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: She was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for her. It may also be what makes her so good at details. Ostracized due to the druidic powers of her oldest brother, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Halflings became a terror of the countryside. She has never given up on her writing dream.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Bather and was forced into it by her family.

Ideals: Gifted, Artistic. Flaws: Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 1600 gp. Blue star sapphire (1600 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (1600 gp). Rock crystal (30 gp). Red spinel (50 gp).