Description: She is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing brown cape and mantle trimmed with soft tan waves gently in the breeze. She has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. She has wavy white fur. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep copper.

Personality: Jade is depressed about a lot of things. She tends to be a nihilist. 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: Trained by her father for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: She loathes her own lifestyle; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Rich, Family, Military. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she is dressed in a clean brown cloak covering her clean studded leather. Her fur is cinnamon and curly. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She snorts whenever she laughs or is feeling confident. She works hard and plays hard.

History: Flame hails from a village terrorized by brigands. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. By chance she met her brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother.

Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Family. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 50 pp. Rhodochrosite (4 gp). Emerald (1200 gp). Sardonyx (30 gp).

Description: This late middle aged woman wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents and is in decent physical shape. Her golden hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She is shy and timid. She has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. She enjoys reading and quiet.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Being born in the south, 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 south 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 north. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Shy, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 22000 sp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: He wears an entirely black suit with yellow socks and a vest with buckled shoes. His red crest is knotted and matted. His eyes are a pleasant red.

Personality: He is irritable and easily angered. He is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use his stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Body Guard but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: A child with a great deal of dancing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. He was an adventurer many years ago and he formed a blood bond with his Tiefling companion (his 'brother'). When he grew older, he became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. He began work as a mercenary for hire. He would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and he has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Pacifist, Artistic, Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 1600 gp.

Description: He is wearing a long, green, dusty cloak. His red crest is matted, messy, and big. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. He does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of dire rats may trigger it at times.

History: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. Cursed with vampirism at a very young age, Fax has worked very hard to control his curse. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it; and revenge

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Darkwood Buckler. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Banded mail.