Description: This malnourished woman wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with tan lining and desert motifs. Her hair, while still mostly chestnut, has prominent grey streaks. Her brown eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: Mara wants to be seen as a stoic, levelheaded, noble Bard, so she tries to act the part. She does a good job, for the most part... She enjoys reading and quiet.

History: Mara was born with her mother's beautiful face. She was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: She desires power and/or immortality; and she has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Disciplined, Logical. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: This fat southern man has a bulbous nose and is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing blue cape and mantle trimmed with soft grey waves gently in the breeze. His skin is also unnaturally pale. He has wavy red hair. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends he is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy himself. Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly.

History: He was born into a rich family. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. 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 share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Joker, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 30 gp.

Description: 4'1" and lanky with angular features, she is an attractive figure. She wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally she sports a grey coat. Her red hair is cut short. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with her opinion, she thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, she can get violently argumentative. The war was a terrible time for her, and Gurdis does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her father always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her father gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her father, who blamed her for driving them apart. After a long history of fighting, Gurdis and her spouse have recently divorced.

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

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Depressed, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 350 gp.

Description: She has a missing right arm. She wears a simple green robe with grey stripes complete with hood. Her crest is short and bronze. This red eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: Her voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl she speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of her tone. She is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes her no end of embarrassment.

History: She comes from a rich southern family. Her homeland was ravaged by war and she spent much of her life rebuilding it. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Flaws: Cynical, Forgetful, PTSD. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 900 gp. Sard (30 gp). Deep blue spinel (200 gp). Black star sapphire (1500 gp). Malachite (10 gp). Moonstone (30 gp). Peridot (30 gp).

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty pastel coat over it. His brown fur is kept up in a ponytail inside a broad hat. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is a hateful person. He taunts others and blames them for his problems. When triggered he is a bloodthirsty maniac, stopping at nothing and killing everything for almost an hour.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. He moved out east to avoid the crime he committed. After a long history of fighting, Silent and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Insane. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 400 pp. Moss agate (13 gp). Bloodstone (60 gp). Black opal (500 gp). Obsidian (13 gp). Violet garnet (900 gp). White opal (500 gp). Golden yellow topaz (900 gp). Moss agate (13 gp). Bloodstone (60 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (13 gp). 1 Medium magic item.