Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she is well dressed, but even with her fine clothing she looks run-down. Her hair is black and curly. She is baby faced.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. She will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: Born in the east to a Bookbinder, Katherine learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. Katherine 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 has taken up work as a Bookbinder and fed both sides of the war false information with the goal of increasing casualties.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Bookbinder responsibilities is difficult; and she feels the way she acts is they only way to get by in the world

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Impulsive, PTSD. Bonds: Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 90 gp.

Description: 6'3" and muscular, this northern woman wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath her coat. She wears a top hat to hide her balding. Her gold eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She is unhospitable to her core. Her small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. Her job bores her to no end. She has decided to make it more interesting.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Architect arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Harann was a troubled youth. She spent her days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent her evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Harann decided she wanted neither the life of her mother nor that of the evil petty criminals she associated with. During her early adolescence, she took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: She will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 400 gp. White pearl (60 gp). Hematite (15 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman stands a little under 4'11" and is a bit bulky. She is very muscular particularly in the legs. She is dressed in earthy colors with a violet and green handkerchief worn on her right side. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her violet unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. She was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud; and several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge

Flaws: Disease, Shy. Bonds: Religious, Immigrant, Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 700 gp. Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (140 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (140 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (140 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1000 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (800 gp). A silver and pearl hairclip (100 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: His left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He is typically in his Bather uniform. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy chestnut hair. His hazel eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He will do just about anything if he becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this he is easily convinced.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Miles grew up listening to his father's many stories. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Bather. He has gone from town to town working and never settling down anywhere, but has fallen for a local Performer. He hasn't told them the truth, but wants to settle down with them.

Motivation: He would like to get married and retire.

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Job, Has a crush, Adventurer, Immigrant. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 100 sp.