Description: A woman of a pale complexion, she is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. Her hair is black and curly. Her eyes are likewise blue.

Personality: In the realm of puns, she cannot help herself. She feels obliged to make them. Vaina is a bit of a follower. Usually she is manipulated by her sisters into helping them out, but recently she has become more of a free agent.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. 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 has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Joker, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Family, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 140 gp. 1 Backpack.

Description: This tall, slender man tends to wear a large green jacket. His crest is silver and curly. This gold eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

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. Despite his manner, he is extremely passionate and proud of his job, and he prides himself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Cartwright arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. He's also a talented Servant, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Cartwright responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Joker. Bonds: Job, Rich, Religious. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 400 pp. Aquamarine (1000 gp). Pink pearl (60 gp). Blue star sapphire (400 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1000 gp). Sard (50 gp). Rhodochrosite (7 gp). Eye agate (7 gp). Zircon (50 gp). Jasper (50 gp).

Description: He stands about 4'2" and usually wears his grey robe and has his bow always slung over his shoulder. His left leg appears badly burned and disfigured. His head has been shaved. His eyes are a pleasant green.

Personality: He acts crazy and hedonistic. He is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: His psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He always admired psionic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: He is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright grey and white, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his mace, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a rose on it. He keeps his red hair in a flapper bob. His hazel eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

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. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: He comes from a rich northern family. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He is greedy.

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 70 gp. 8 Acid flasks.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He wears many layers of old clothing at all times. His silver hair is singed and shortened. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. He likes to tell stories.

History: His druidic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. In his 19th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He has been saving his money to try and buy his brother's freedom.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and he is terrified, and will act out of fear

Ideals: Persistence, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Poor, Family. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 1000 gp.

Description: He wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates his frame. He has wavy white hair. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Qemuel is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: He was born in a small island village. Over the years he perfected his riding and shooting skills. He became a Interpreter soon after.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break; and obtaining odd cultural dwarven artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Joker, Justice. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 70 gp.

Description: This light-skinned female prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for her hunting needs. She is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. Her head has been shaved. Her blue eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. She is a thrill seeker, she laughs at people and throws down challenges. She is highly competitive and combative.

History: The child of western immigrants she idolized her mother. A few years later when the east was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She has dedicated herself to building a better kind of golem.

Motivation: She is greedy; and obtaining odd cultural human artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Immigrant, Slave. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 1200 gp. Jet (60 gp). Aquamarine (1100 gp). Rock crystal (40 gp). Blue quartz (16 gp).