Description: 5'8" and lanky with angular features, she is an attractive figure. She wears a large hat to cast shadows over her face and wears ponchos to better hide her body. Her purple hair is still thick. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. She works hard and plays hard.

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 now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Rich. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 2500 sp.

Description: This northern man is abnormally tall. He is dressed in an above average manner. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. He wears his brown hair up in a very large beehive style do. He has several tiny aquamarine earrings on each ear.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. He pushes his goals aggressively. He is also a coward if confronted.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Laborer arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. A few years later when the south was not economically sound they moved to his current location. 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 is greedy; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 700 gp.

Description: She is in excellent shape and wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her bastard sword with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. Her rusty crest is lengthy. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She is cool and collected. She likes to make quips and puns whenever she does anything. She also makes a point to compliment her superiors and flatter them. She spends most of her days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There she gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: Born in the east to a Priest, Jheri learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. Being born in the east, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the east for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way north. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister.

Ideals: Athletic, Disciplined. Bonds: Adventurer, Job, Family. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 10000 sp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This slender woman stands about 2'11". She is wearing a long, white cloak. Her chestnut hair is matted, messy, and big. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She snorts whenever she laughs or is feeling confident. She is a ruthless business woman, a trait she acquired from her mother.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. She has had some formal music training, and achieved minor success. 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: Retire the richest woman in the west; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Artistic, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 9000 sp.

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he tends to wear a large pastel jacket. He wears his yellow fur down. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines green.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. He does not mind isolation but does not hate company and attempts to receive them as best as possible.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Tree was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Tree 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 Tree. 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: Joker, Extrovert. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Mentor, Criminal record. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: Jet (130 gp). Onyx (80 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This younger middle-aged woman is dressed in a clean tan cloak covering her clean studded leather, and a wedding ring on her right hand. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep gray.

Personality: She is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks her mind. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious western family, she was no stranger to responsibility. At a young age both her parents were killed in an accident. Her uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took her in and had her trained in basic self defense. As of late she has set up a hidden staging nest where she ambushes people she hires for escort.

Motivation: Her religion dominates her actions; and retire the richest woman in the west

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: In love, Religious, Criminal record. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, she tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with her rolled up shirt sleeves this gives her a very relaxed look. Her red hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. Her eyes are likewise blue.

Personality: She considers herself the perfect lady. She makes a point to always show proper etiquette and frequently critiques the etiquette of others. She does not believe in violence as a means to an end. She is a dedicated Tanner but believes her peers are too gung-ho.

History: A child with a great deal of painting talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. She has had some formal painting training, and achieved minor success. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the west.

Ideals: Impeccable, Pacifist, Artistic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 130 gp.