Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he wears a pastel costume with the symbols of luck on his torso. His fur is cut close to his head. His eyes are a pleasant yellow.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: He got into the Guard business at a young age. In his 12th 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 drifted from career to career and currently works as a Guard.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Guard responsibilities is difficult; and wants his loneliness to end

Flaws: Impulsive, Fearful. Bonds: Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 3100 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (140 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (2200 gp).

Description: This younger middle-aged woman is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times, and a wedding ring on her left hand. Her orange fur, when down, is lengthy. Her eyes are blue.

Personality: She is a very philanthropic person; she spends her free time working at various soup kitchens. Energy wise she seems alert and responsive.

History: The child of southern immigrants she idolized her mother. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. Some 9 years later her spouse died after the birth of her son. Heartbroken, Aura never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her son whom she trained as her mother had trained her before.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and she loathes her own lifestyle

Ideals: Philantrophist, Professionalism. Bonds: Attractive, In love, Immigrant. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 600 gp.

Description: She is a pot bellied western woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). She sports black long hair. Her amber eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. Any perceived weakness will be pressed and exploited. She is seen as merciless and passionate.

History: She was born several months after her father was called into army service. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. After a long history of fighting, Wella and her spouse have recently divorced.

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: Athletic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Criminal record, Military, Religious. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 400 pp. Tourmaline (100 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes.. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. His hair is chestnut and very short. His blue eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He seems absolutely devoid of it. He stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. His temper goes off on the smallest of things. He tends to lash out at those around him.

History: He was born at the edge of vast plains. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He bought a bow and has really upped his game hunting, due to his understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: He seems to be bored by most things; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Mundane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 400 pp. Jasper (60 gp). Iolite (60 gp). Black pearl (800 gp). Zircon (60 gp). Violet garnet (800 gp). Freshwater pearl (16 gp).

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking eastern young adult. He tends to wear a violet poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. He has a very tight haircut. His eyes are blue and catlike.

Personality: He is a man who does what he needs to. He will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: Quarion was born into a poor family. Growing up, he dreamt of becoming a Adept, to bring honor to his family’s name. When he came of age, he applied for a position with his town's local guard, looking to work his way up via merit and eventually become a Adept in service of a powerful lord somewhere. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. 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; and wants to open a new tavern

Bonds: Slave, Criminal record, Adventurer, Poor, Job. Occupation: Performer

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 90 pp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is a husky woman, who prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for her hunting needs. Her brown hair is wavy and long. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She is irritable and easily angered. She is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use her stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. She is ready at a moment's notice to give into her darker urges. She is a real pyromaniac and does not care who the fire hurts. She often ends up burning people alive in the fires she starts.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her father always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Enna grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Enna. She has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

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; and to unite with her sister

Flaws: Antagonistic, Insane. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 1900 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He stands about 5'2" and prefers to wear flannel. His right leg appears badly burned and disfigured. He wears his black hair up. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady amber eyes.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. When he was little, his rather wealthy family often ventured across the desert to a summer home near a ruined castle. He would wander through that ruined castle and adventure through it for days. One day while adventuring a terrible storm took place and he was stranded inside. His family spent the next few days looking for him, and could only assume he was dead when it came time to leave. The family never returned to the desert due to the painful memories there. Ahvain took refuge in the ruined castle and found the beat up crossbow and armor he uses now. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and he uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Hedonist. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 600 gp. Sard (70 gp). 1 Minor magic item.