Description: This younger middle-aged woman wears silk and lounges about seductively, and a wedding ring on her left hand. She has styled her chestnut hair well, parting it to the left. Her eyes are violet and catlike.

Personality: While she acts the brute, she is far gentler than she would appear. She has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. In her 17th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her father impaled in their home, and her mother beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. Some 10 years later her spouse died after the birth of her son. Heartbroken, Volen never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her son whom she trained as her father had trained her before.

Motivation: She feels threatened by others.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, In love, Military. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 10000 sp. Deep blue spinel (1000 gp).

Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing grey cape and mantle trimmed with soft green waves gently in the breeze. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation she is generally quite perceptive. She notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. Her philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She leaves a trail of broken hearts and full pockets wherever she goes.

Motivation: She is greedy; and she uses money and sex appeal to get what she needs

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Rich, Attractive. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 310 gp.

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He wears a blue shirt with thin green vertical stripes and brown pants. He has styled his red hair well, parting it to the left. He has blue eyes.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: Born in the east to a Soapmaker, Aerdeth learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and money/treasure

Ideals: Optimist, Fighting. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: Obsidian (12 gp). Bloodstone (20 gp).

Description: This woman is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of her veins is visible when she is not flexing. Her shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for her due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. Her golden hair is knotted and matted. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She resents people who mock her appearance or her, so she has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. She uses divination through singing.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. Her parents enrolled her in a Adept school at a young age so that she could practice her martial talents. Unlike her family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, she wanted to work in the city. She has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 350 pp. Lapis lazuli (15 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She is dressed in an above average manner. She has wavy blue hair. Her skin is flawless and her white eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. Jezebeth enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Jezebeth was born into a poor family. Growing up, she dreamt of becoming a Expert, to bring honor to her family’s name. When she came of age, she applied for a position with her town's local guard, looking to work her way up via merit and eventually become a Expert in service of a powerful lord somewhere. She made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. She got away from her former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: Meet up once more with her childhood friend; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Flaws: Addict, Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 15000 sp. Banded agate (4 gp). Bloodstone (70 gp). Moss agate (4 gp). Deep green spinel (60 gp). Deep green spinel (60 gp). Lapis lazuli (4 gp). Sardonyx (70 gp). Rose (70 gp).