Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Cook. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her eyes are violet and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. She has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a woman enough she will sell her own mother. Money is her most trusted friend.

History: Her martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Anastrianna abandoned her home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. She survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. She did whatever it took for her to survive. She now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 11000 sp. Golden yellow topaz (400 gp).

Description: She is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. She carries with her a set of longswords, each one with a opal on the hilt. She only wears one on her belt and the other on her back. Her hair is short and auburn. Her eyes are hazel and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. She is stubborn though. She always likes to keep a trick up her sleeve. She likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if she feels she even has a chance of losing.

History: The child of a Healer, who enjoyed hunting, Naivara was taken on many hunting expeditions. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her father gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her father, who blamed her for driving them apart. Being a Carter kept her interest for a while, but then she became depressed and bored. So she turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: Marry her brother to traveling adventurers; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Justice. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Criminal record, Nature, Family. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 700 pp. Moonstone (50 gp). Smoky quartz (50 gp). Onyx (50 gp). Lapis lazuli (10 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (800 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A pudgy woman standing about 3'9" has a big stupid grin on her face most of the time. She wears a robe, a symbol of the four houses of cards around her neck, and a lance on her belt. Her white hair is still thick. Her amber eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, she has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. She refers to her adoptive mother 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: She was born at the edge of vast island. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. By chance she met her brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother

Ideals: Fighting, Disciplined. Bonds: Family, Nature, Rich. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This exceptionally lanky man wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. He sports a long blonde beard, and similarly colored long hair. His eyes are gray.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk he knows how to make people feel guilty. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. He found a children's book about a Human Adept who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. He modeled his life after the story, seeing himself destined a hero. He became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends; and he's looking for his big break

Flaws: Depressed, Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 700 sp.