Description: She wears a brown coat over a grey low-cut shirt, and a top hat upon her head. She carries a battered glaive and tarnished shortspear as well. She keeps her blonde hair in a pixie cut. She is baby faced.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage daughter.

History: Her mother raised her in a mountain cabin. Her father was a soldier and died while she was still young. Melissa was left her father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. Recently a tribe of drow attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Melissa fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To unite with her sister; and doesn't want to be a scribe and was forced into it by her family

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Sensitive. Bonds: Family, Nature, Military. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 340 gp.

Description: A man of a pale complexion, he is wearing a long, tan, dusty cloak. His black hair and beard is wavy and long. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: He was born at the edge of vast desert. He was a friend to animals and a trickster. In his defense of animals however he would do severe harm to people. He was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of freemasons.

Motivation: Regain custody of his son; and to be a bellfounder again

Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Nature, Family. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 8000 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She is in excellent shape and likes to wear ponchos typically of a light grey in addition to tight pants. She wears her chestnut hair down. Her eyes are gray and catlike.

Personality: She is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help her friends. She considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. She also is a firm believer in the womanly ideal.

History: Born to a Dyer, her father struggled to pay the bills. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Crown-heir. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Crown-heir for the past few years.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by orcs, and she desires to right it; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Athletic, Optimist. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Poor, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 600 sp. 1 Darkwood Shield.

Description: This woman prefers to wear brown pants and tee shirts. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized sapphire on her right hand. She has done her best to style her yellow fur to look like a famous performer. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Shadow embodies much of what other species detest in the Tabaxis. She is a great chef.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her father always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. She always admired psionic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She got away from her former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent father; and she is greedy

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic, Addict. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: Just what you see.