Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep tan leather and dull white iron scale mail. He has a brown handlebar mustache and slicked back brown hair. His eyes are gray.

Personality: He is happy with his job as a Architect. He turns his eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. He has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: His necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. Through the years after Kellen was born, his mother became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the north. Kellen's mother didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and to be a server again

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 41000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy silver stubble. She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. She has a hunchback. Her silver hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a top hat. She has several tiny sapphire earrings on each ear.

Personality: She considers herself a woman of culture and sophistication. She likes a good challenge to her wits. She is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. She haggles over everything, upselling her goods and buying cheap. She is persistent in everything.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Marshal arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Her mother was a soldier and died while she was still young. Shanairla was left her mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for her.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Military. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 1 Half-Plate. 1 Breastplate.

Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking southern young adult. She typically wears white cloth garments or leather armor. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. She has shaved her head bald. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends she is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy herself. She enjoys reading and quiet.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Merchant arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. She was one of the best in her class, and was picked up by her current employer. She quickly showed her capability and was soon promoted to a head role. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Joker, Logical. Bonds: Slave, Rich, Job. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 4000 sp. Chrysoberyl (160 gp). Eye agate (14 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A 3'2" western woman, she wears a blue coat over a grey low-cut shirt, and a broad hat upon her head. With wild golden hair. Her eyes are blue and catlike.

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 obsessed with finding treasure.

History: Born to a Farmer, her father struggled to pay the bills. Her family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The father sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. She saw this and took pride in her father's willingness to do anything to win. Being a Barrister kept her interest for a while, but then she became depressed and bored. So she turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: Her religion dominates her actions; and seeks redemption

Flaws: Cynical. Bonds: Adventurer, Poor, Criminal record, Religious. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 1300 gp. Golden yellow topaz (1200 gp). Golden pearl (70 gp). Citrine (30 gp). Chrysoberyl (70 gp). Blue sapphire (400 gp). Jet (70 gp). Onyx (30 gp).

Description: A moderately attractive woman, she wears a tight fitting white shirt and pants. Her auburn hair is knotted and matted. Her eyes are a pleasant gray.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. When she's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, she's doing dancing.

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. Cursed with a spirit at a very young age, Vanchu has worked very hard to control her curse. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and to find somewhere to settle down

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 1000 pp. Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (600 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (600 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (600 gp). 1 Minor magic item.