Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she wears light armors faded through time and improper care. Her hair is chestnut and curly. She has gleaming, smiling gray eyes.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic woman, Anastrianna's first love is herself. Her second love is also herself. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage daughter.

History: Anastrianna was born into a poor family. Growing up, she dreamt of becoming a Ranger, to bring honor to her family’s name. When she came of age, she applied for a position with her town's local guard, looking to work her way up via merit and eventually become a Ranger in service of a powerful lord somewhere. Anastrianna abandoned her home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. She survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. She did whatever it took for her to survive. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark.

Ideals: Impeccable. Bonds: Family, Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 5000 cp. 1 Masterwork Heavy wooden shield. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Banded mail.

Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She wears baggy grey pantaloons and a green scarf. She keeps her white hair in a flapper bob. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. Balifra enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: She comes from a rich western family. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She is greedy.

Ideals: Athletic, Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 70 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. He keeps his long silver hair kept up in a rat tail. His eyes are violet and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: He got into the Guard business at a young age. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Guard hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Guard.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and expand his business

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Job. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: This woman wears a brown collared shirt and blue skirt. She accessorizes with a pastel scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across her shirt. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized aquamarine on her right hand. She wears her black fur up. Her half smiles and green eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: She is a sleazy, sleazy gal. She has no qualms about using her powers of suggestion to get people to do what she wants. She does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her father gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her father, who blamed her for driving them apart. She has gone from town to town working and never settling down anywhere, but has fallen for a local Spice Merchant. She hasn't told them the truth, but wants to settle down with them.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and wants her loneliness to end

Flaws: Insomniac, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Has a crush. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 130 gp.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy brown stubble. He is dressed in a clean white cloak covering his clean studded leather. He has a hunchback. With a patchy brown beard and wild brown hair. This gray eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He snorts whenever he laughs or is feeling confident. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. His parents enrolled him in a Fighter school at a young age so that he could practice his necromantic talents. He was granted necromantic powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture; and he is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 3000 sp. Alexandrite (300 gp). Zircon (30 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: Lewis is depressed about a lot of things. He tends to be a nihilist. 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: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. His family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The father sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. He saw this and took pride in his father's willingness to do anything to win. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk; and he desires power and/or immortality

Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Military, Criminal record. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he wears silk and lounges about seductively. His purple hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He is a hateful person. He taunts others and blames them for his problems. More though he will beg to come along on any journeys. He will attempt to stowaway on any ship he can in the hopes that it will get him further away.

History: Born in the east to a Stylist, Skamos learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. His first spouse was a Detective, they had one daughter, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. After a long history of fighting, Skamos and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Slave, Job, Family. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 4000 gp. Tourmaline (40 gp). Deep blue spinel (1200 gp). Chrysoprase (60 gp). Carnelian (60 gp). Blue quartz (8 gp). Blue quartz (8 gp). Hematite (8 gp). Malachite (8 gp). Violet garnet (1200 gp).