Description: With black face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he wears dull green sweaters, loose white pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath his sweater he keeps a concealed kukri, just in case. He wears a Stetson hat to hide his balding. His eyes are likewise red.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. Cressel enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family Like his mother and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Shepherd. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Criminal record, Job, In love. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 900 gp. Citrine (60 gp). Blue quartz (5 gp).

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep blue leather and dull white iron scale mail. With a patchy golden beard and wild golden hair. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage son.

History: Born to a Cartwright, his father struggled to pay the bills. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. He became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and doesn't want to be a courier and was forced into it by his family

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Adventurer, Family, Poor. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 1100 sp.

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She has a large brown mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into her tan robe. She has shaved her head bald. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She is quiet and unassuming. She ignores others and carries on with her job unassumingly. She also hits on women, regardless of circumstances.

History: Helgret was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her father was employed at, doing general labor. She was an apprentice working in her father's forge. She has gone from town to town working and never settling down anywhere, but has fallen for a local Fortune-teller. She hasn't told them the truth, but wants to settle down with them.

Motivation: She's in love; and to be a fortune-teller again

Bonds: Immigrant, Job, Has a crush, Poor. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears a brown cloak and cross-gartered green stockings. He has styled his white fur well, parting it to the left. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: He was born in the east. He has had some formal painting training, and achieved minor success. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic, Forgetful. Bonds: Adventurer, Immigrant. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.