Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He wears a white cloak and cross-gartered black stockings. His moppish black hair is in a traditional bowl cut. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: The man has a huge range of feeling. He will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how he will be a better person from this day on. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: Ortegar was raised in a hard working conservative environment. His parents divorced when he was young, and his father gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his father, who blamed him for driving them apart. He has achieved small success as a Sculptor.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and to reunite with his absent father

Flaws: Emotional, Secretive, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. She carries her fan with her everywhere and carries herself as the perfect lady. Her long white fur is drawn into a two foot long braid. She has gleaming, smiling green eyes.

Personality: She speaks before she thinks and is too direct. She is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: The child of southern immigrants she idolized her father. She always admired psionic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: She is greedy; and money/treasure

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Impulsive, Shy. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 60 gp.

Description: Standing 6'2", this man wears black leather gloves, a black jacket, and tight pants. His brass crest is singed and shortened. His eyes are likewise red. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He is quite rude, and likes to deride his opponents skill and shout insults at them. He cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one.

History: Trained by his mother for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. His parents were killed by dire rats in a raid when he was still a young child. The dire rats captured him, and made him a slave and general play-thing. He was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to his deformed appearance. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to dire rats demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: A deep hatred of dire rats; and revenge

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Military, Enemies. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 12000 sp.

Description: An older woman who is well dressed, constantly wearing a brown suit, black shirt, and white tie, she is not a threatening figure. Her black hair is cut short. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. Her philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her father. She made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Healer for the past few years.

Motivation: Meet up once more with her childhood friend; and expand her business

Ideals: Optimist, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 200 pp. Blue star sapphire (1100 gp). Aquamarine (400 gp). Onyx (70 gp). Coral (50 gp). Obsidian (11 gp). Moss agate (11 gp). Violet garnet (400 gp). Zircon (70 gp). Eye agate (11 gp).

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she wears tattered old clothes. Her long white hair reaches down to her waist. Her gray eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: The woman has a huge range of feeling. She will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how she will be a better person from this day on. She has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a woman enough she will sell her own mother. Money is her most trusted friend.

History: Her arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Her father disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her father, she was betrayed dozens of times. By chance she met her brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well; and marry her brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Emotional. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Speaks with a cold

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

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. Her auburn hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. Her gray eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: Tordrid hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her dancing career. She invites people to come help in her community garden.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her father always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. 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. Recently a tribe of giants attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Tordrid fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Artistic, Philantrophist. Flaws: Antagonistic. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 900 sp.

Description: He wears a brown tunic with black highlights, and long red pants that bunch up around his shoes. He is physically well-built. He has no hair. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. He can't help but pocket interesting objects he comes across

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Ideals: Disciplined, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Criminal record, Mentor. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 320 pp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (1100 gp). A delicate brass dragon egg (60 gp). Carved bone or ivory statuette (60 gp).