Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with yellow lining and desert motifs. His chestnut hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. His green eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. His temper goes off on the smallest of things. He tends to lash out at those around him.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. Through the years after Aldous was born, his father became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the south. Aldous's father didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 9 years.

Motivation: To unite with his sister; and he has money and likes to spend it

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Job, Family. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking southern young adult. She wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. Her fur is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her eyes are likewise copper. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She snorts whenever she laughs or is feeling confident. She is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in her opinion.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Sweet was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: To be a Herbalist again; and she is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Slave, Mentor, Job. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 900 gp.

Description: 6'3" and lanky with angular features, she is an attractive figure. She dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. Her red crest is still thick. Her skin is flawless and her red eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: She is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. Animals are drawn to her, and she is able to talk to them.

History: Gilkass was born with her father's beautiful face. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. She became a Seamstress soon after.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Gifted, Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 100 pp. Blue quartz (7 gp). Pink pearl (100 gp). 1 Half-Plate. 1 Darkwood Buckler.

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. With wild golden hair. Her eyes are brown.

Personality: She likes to fabricate stories about her past exploits and how crazy she is, but in actuality she is rather bland. She is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. When Lia reached her early adolescence her Elf mother passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, she decided to travel. Her rounds led her into the Army with a few individuals who would become her life-long companions. 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; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Mundane, Lazy. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 80 pp.

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for her hunting needs. She has slicked back chestnut hair. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. Energy wise she seems alert and responsive.

History: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Professionalism, Logical. Flaws: Sensitive, Insane. Bonds: Rich, Attractive. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 6000 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears blue leather gloves, a blue jacket, and tight pants. She is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly lances and falchions. Her head has been shaved. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She trusts no one. She is not readily capable for forgiveness and her ire never leaves her. She is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Elves.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Leshanna grew up listening to her father's many stories. She moved out north to avoid the crime she committed. Being a Actor 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: She is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions.

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Racist. Bonds: Criminal record, Adventurer. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 300 gp. Brown-green garnet (60 gp). Red garnet (60 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (7 gp).

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking northern young adult. He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing blue cape and mantle trimmed with soft green waves gently in the breeze. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His black hair is smooth and relatively long. His half smiles and hazel eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Bowyer born in the past three hundred years. He never wears the same outfit twice, unless he absolutely has to.

History: Broce was born with his mother's beautiful face. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and expand his business

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Rich, Slave, Attractive, Job. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: Just what you see.