Description: This late middle aged woman wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally she sports a black coat and is in decent physical shape. She has no crest. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

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 is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

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 struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. She spent several years traveling with her friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: She's looking for her big break.

Ideals: Joker, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is of a modest build and height, but she carries herself more imposing than she is. She dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over her head. Her copper crest is thinning but still full. She has red eyes and a green hat with a brown feather.

Personality: She is business-like. She takes instructions and follows them to the letter. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: Her arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. She always admired arcane-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: She is greedy; and money/treasure

Ideals: Professionalism, Joker, Gifted, Logical. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: She wears a robe, a symbol of strength around her neck, and a quarterstaff on her belt. Her skin is fair and her fingers are delicate and long. Her black hair is well kept. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She speaks before she thinks and is too direct. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Vadania was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. She sought a place where she would be rewarded solely on the merits of her skills. This search led her directly into Body Guard work with an outfit from a few towns over. Body Guard work suited her well, and with each successful project, she earned more gold and more respect from her peers. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Body Guard for the past few years.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Mentor, Job. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 4000 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: An older man who wears tan trousers with white and green striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts, he is not a threatening figure. He has dyed his greying white hair a little too much giving a sharp white color. He has green eyes and a tan hat with a white feather.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He would rather hide behind his crafts than deal with other people.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Crown-heir arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. At a young age both his parents were killed in an accident. His uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took him in and had him trained in basic self defense. Being a Crown-heir kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Gifted, Artistic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 2200 sp.

Description: A plain young-adult man, he is dressed in earthy colors with a grey and green handkerchief worn on his left side. He keeps his black hair in a flapper bob. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: Alberich hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his dancing career. Alberich enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: A child with a great deal of dancing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. At a young age he wooed the heart of his future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: In love, Criminal record. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 320 gp. Tourmaline (130 gp). 3 Smokesticks.

Description: He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his longsword with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. He carries a battered glaive and tarnished longsword as well. He has yellow fur. His green eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He likes to make people angry or surprised. On top of that he is swayed by a pretty face, and while loyalty to his employer will always come first he doesn't like to hit women.

History: A child with a great deal of singing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. He 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. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature longsword.

Motivation: Meet up once more with his childhood friend; and wants his loneliness to end

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Has a crush, Adventurer. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 40000 cp. Amethyst (120 gp).

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He likes to wear ponchos typically of a light grey in addition to tight pants. He sports a long brown beard, and similarly colored long hair. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. A friendly and beautiful Human, he is rarely seen without a few beauties around his arms. Though a playboy in all rights, he is no lame duck.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. His father was a soldier and died while he was still young. Peter was left his father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. He's also a talented Priest, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 160 gp.