Description: 4'9" and muscular, this southern woman wears dark leathers with embroidery. Her chestnut hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: Stoic and calm, she prefers to meditate than take action. She tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. Over the years she perfected her riding and shooting skills. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Disciplined, Optimist. Bonds: Nature, Immigrant. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 50 pp.

Description: This woman wears a white cloak and cross-gartered black stockings, and sports empty pouches on her belt. Her hair is cut close to her head. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: Jillian is a sociable creature first and foremost. She loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. She can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. She is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: When she was but 6 years old her parents immigrated from the west. A few years later when the east was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She left for the west, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the west; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Extrovert, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Military, Immigrant. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 1000 gp. An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (140 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (140 gp). An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (60 gp).

Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She wears tan robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally she wears more armor. She prefers to carry a sai, but if one is not available she will default to her morningstar. Her hair is silver and curly. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She likes to fabricate stories about her past exploits and how crazy she is, but in actuality she is rather bland. She lacks moral complications. She does what she is told to by employers but not much else. She spends her money on whatever she fancies at the time.

History: Born in the east to a Masseuse, Ella learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. A serious injury left her mother unemployed and in need of constant care. Her family became saddled with debt trying to care for her infirm mother. She struck the Masseuse job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: To end her boredom.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Job, Debt. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: She is an average looking western female in her early mid-life. She wears just a brown suit. Her black hair is wavy and long. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines blue.

Personality: She is witty, but her monotone delivery comes off as unnerving She does not believe in violence as a means to an end. She is a dedicated Cook but believes her peers are too gung-ho.

History: Her psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She would like to get married and retire; and money/treasure

Ideals: Joker, Pacifist, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 120000 cp. Black pearl (1600 gp). Smoky quartz (60 gp). Azurite (14 gp). Fire opal (700 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1600 gp). Eye agate (14 gp). Chalcedony (60 gp).

Description: She is wearing a long, brown cloak. She is portly but not overly obese. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her eyes are hazel and catlike.

Personality: In the realm of puns, she cannot help herself. She feels obliged to make them. She is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes her no end of embarrassment.

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. She was an apprentice working in her father's forge. She's also a talented Laborer, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: She has decided she is irredeemable; and balancing her hectic life and new crown-heir responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Joker, Gifted. Flaws: Forgetful. Bonds: Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 900 gp. Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (2100 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (2100 gp). 1 Minor magic item.