Description: This exceptionally lanky woman has a large grey mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into her pastel robe. Her hair is short and white. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as she rather likes the sound of her voice. Her demeanor is somewhat feminine. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her painting with anyone who is interested.

History: She was born in the west, but her parents moved at a very young age to the east. Being born in the west, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the west for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way east. 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: Wants to have a good time and be beloved.

Ideals: Optimist, Artistic. Bonds: Family, Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 130 gp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: This tall, slender man wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his shortspear with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. With a patchy auburn beard and wild auburn hair. His amber eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: Stannor was born the youngest of three triplets. His mother was very strict, and drilled into him lessons on being the perfect gentleman. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: He would like to get married and retire; and doesn't want to be a bowyer and was forced into it by his family

Ideals: Gifted, Impeccable. Flaws: Terse. Bonds: Family, Has a crush. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 400 gp. Rock crystal (80 gp). Blue star sapphire (1100 gp).

Description: With white face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with grey lining and desert motifs. She wears her silver hair down. She has several tiny sapphire earrings on each ear.

Personality: She is shy and timid. She has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. She loves being with her children and actually smiles when they are around. She would do anything for them. She dislikes her ex a great deal.

History: A child with a great deal of painting talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her sons to still be retired.

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

Ideals: Artistic, Fighting. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 80 gp.

Description: This southern man is abnormally tall. He wears a black cloak and cross-gartered red stockings. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. His hair is chestnut and very short. His red eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with poetry. He constantly tries to fill his life with poetry. To his fellows he is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the south. As a young child he wandered into the woods despite his mother's warnings against it. Afterwards he claimed he had encountered orcs who tried to eat his hand. He has never given up on his poetry dream.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and revenge

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Enemies, Poor. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 400 gp. White opal (1200 gp). Bloodstone (50 gp). Hematite (11 gp). Deep blue spinel (1400 gp). Hematite (11 gp). Obsidian (11 gp).