Description: Her left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise she appears quite healthy. She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her red hair is wavy and long. Her eyes are gray and catlike.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic woman, Joan's first love is herself. Her second love is also herself. She is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: Her arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Cursed with vampirism at a very young age, Joan has worked very hard to control her curse. She was granted arcane powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: She doesn't get along with people that don't share her tastes; and she desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Impeccable, Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 170 pp.

Description: Her skin has the orange glow of too much sun. She has the majority of her body covered in plate. Her long golden hair reaches down to her waist. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food she seems plenty friendly. She has a cruel streak; something she gained from her previous mentor. She harbors resentment against her former mentor.

History: Ahlyssa hails from a village terrorized by giants. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to giants demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and she wants revenge against giants

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Mentor, Enemies. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 700 gp.

Description: 3'3" and muscular, this southern man prefers to wear flannel. His brown hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. He has gleaming, smiling blue eyes.

Personality: He loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from him. He is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Halfling in existence. He is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Halflings in the south were limited. He was granted necromantic powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Athletic, Justice, Gifted. Bonds: Nature, Immigrant. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 2200 gp. Deep blue spinel (200 gp). Amethyst (40 gp). Hematite (12 gp).

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She wears baggy white pantaloons and a brown scarf. She sports a flattop hair cut. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep violet.

Personality: She is unhospitable to her core. Her small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. She can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. 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 Shepherd. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Shepherd.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 14000 cp.