Description: He wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). His black fur is knotted and matted. He has several tiny sapphire earrings on each ear.

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 has all his life been fascinated with poetry.

History: His martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. In his 14th 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 knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: He feels threatened by others.

Ideals: Persistence, Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 200 pp. Rhodochrosite (8 gp). Violet garnet (1300 gp). Alexandrite (1300 gp). Blue quartz (8 gp). Jade (150 gp). Golden pearl (150 gp). Silver pearl (150 gp). Moonstone (20 gp).

Description: A 5'9" western man, he dresses in black turtlenecks beneath a brown coat with red slacks. He wears his brown hair up in a very large beehive style do. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines green.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He spends most of his days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There he gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: The child of western immigrants he idolized his mother. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature trident.

Motivation: Expand his business; and obtaining odd cultural tiefling artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Immigrant. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 2000 sp.

Description: She wears a blue vest with golden trim over her white shirt. Her brown leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and her blue boots flare out at the collars. She is bald on top and has large golden tufts of hair around her ears. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: Callybon speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. She is clearly well-traveled and educated. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her painting with anyone who is interested.

History: She was born into a rich family. She was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. She has never given up on her painting dream.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Impeccable, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Rich. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: This late middle aged woman is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured and is in decent physical shape. Her moppish black hair is in a traditional bowl cut. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: A deeply religious woman she believes everything happens for a reason. She enjoys reading and quiet.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her mother always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. Through the years after Robbie was born, her mother became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the east. Robbie's mother didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. By chance she met her sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Religious, Family, Job. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 300 gp. 2 Acid flasks. 1 Holy water.

Description: A pudgy woman standing about 4'8" has a big stupid grin on her face most of the time. She wears long strands of opal and short violet dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. Her brown hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a top hat. She has a dull look in her amber eyes.

Personality: She dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the west. As she has aged she has sought to do reparations for her actions as a youth. She is also making sure that her compatriots who never received punishment for their crimes are brought to justice.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. She moved out north to avoid the crime she committed. Some 7 years later her spouse died after the birth of her daughter. Heartbroken, Sybil never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her daughter whom she trained as her mother had trained her before.

Motivation: She will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact.

Ideals: Pacifist, Justice. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record, In love. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 6000 sp.

Description: She wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. She carries with her a set of shortspears on her belt, each one with a ruby on the hilt. She keeps her golden hair in a flapper bob. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She is fixated on the number 45. She counts her steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. She seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. She always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove her into the Guard business.

History: She was born at the edge of vast plains. Giselle liked to wander the woods near her home when she was young, something she still likes to do at least once a week. She never liked modest clothing or shoes, so she would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and she developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. One night she noticed a nearby shooting star which she hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. She has done her darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and she is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Fighting, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Poor, Nature. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 30000 cp. Hematite (8 gp). Lapis lazuli (8 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. This gray eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He snorts whenever he laughs or is feeling confident. He plays an instrument quite well.

History: The child of southern immigrants he idolized his mother. He was taken from his home at a very young age. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He wants revenge against dire rats; and several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Slave, Enemies. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Minor magic item.