Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears long strands of jet and short brown dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. His hair is golden and curly. His blue eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: Calm and collected, he is a well trained Barrister. He claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day he will do what he thinks is right.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and he is greedy

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Rich, Job, Military. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 4000 gp. Banded agate (10 gp). Iolite (50 gp). Malachite (10 gp).

Description: She wears a white cloak and cross-gartered violet stockings. Her auburn hair, when down, is lengthy. Her hazel eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: This woman loves painting and to teach people painting more than just about anything. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Vanchu is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: Vanchu was born in the west. At a young age she loved to build and create. Her mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her mother was legitimate. She has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and she is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs

Ideals: Artistic, Justice, Persistence. Bonds: Religious, Rich. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Darkwood Buckler. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: She is lean but muscular and wears grey painted combat armor at almost all times. Her long auburn hair reaches down to her waist. Her skin is flawless and her blue eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: She is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. When she's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, she's doing poetry.

History: Oriel lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her mother gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her mother, who blamed her for driving them apart. After a long history of fighting, Oriel and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Marry her brother to traveling adventurers; and to reunite with her absent mother

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 110 gp. Star rose quartz (70 gp).

Description: This eastern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep violet leather and dull blue iron scale mail. He is bald on top and has large red tufts of hair around his ears. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are amber.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. 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. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He has worked as a Interpreter like his mother before him.

Motivation: To be a Body Guard again; and he has money and likes to spend it

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 70 pp.

Description: She is a husky woman, who wears a blue cloak and cross-gartered grey stockings. She wears her chestnut hair up. Her brown unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Tervaround is a sociable creature first and foremost. She loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. She can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. 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: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Tervaround was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. A serious injury left her mother unemployed and in need of constant care. Her family became saddled with debt trying to care for her infirm mother. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: She made a deal with a demon which lead to her current lot in life, and she's becoming increasingly nervous about it; and retire the richest woman in the north

Ideals: Extrovert, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Mentor, Debt. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 2000 gp. Sard (80 gp). Deep blue spinel (800 gp). Eye agate (11 gp). Azurite (11 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. Her red fur is still thick. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, she has a hard time making friends. She is accommodating to her spouse and as such limits her hospitality. She is brave and levelheaded in the face of danger and has proven herself a capable leader.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. Some 10 years later her spouse died after the birth of her son. Heartbroken, Edge 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.

Flaws: Insane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, In love, Rich. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 2400 sp. Coral (80 gp). Tourmaline (80 gp).

Description: She wears a tan coat over a blue low-cut shirt, and a feathered hat upon her head. She carries with her a set of rapiers, each one with a emerald on the hilt. She only wears one on her belt and the other on her back. Her chestnut hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She goes out her way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one she won't accept into her heart. Despite her manner, she is extremely passionate and proud of her job, and she prides herself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: She was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family She dropped out of school before completing her studies. Being a Body Guard kept her interest for a while, but then she became depressed and bored. So she turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist, Logical. Bonds: Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 40 pp.

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. She keeps her long gray fur kept up in a rat tail. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She considers herself the protector of her home. She feels this is her duty and calling. 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: She was born in the north, but her parents moved at a very young age to the west. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She eventually got the idea of being the protector of her homeland from reading books, and has made it her duty.

Motivation: To clean up the streets; and she's looking for her big break

Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Guardian, Adventurer, Immigrant. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 7000 sp. Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (700 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: 6'5" and lanky with angular features, she is an attractive figure. She prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. She carries her fan with her everywhere and carries herself as the perfect lady. She has done her best to style her green crest to look like a famous performer. She has gleaming, smiling red eyes.

Personality: She believes mankind has become decadent and spoiled by the march of civilization and an end should come to life as we know it. 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 son.

History: The child of southern immigrants she idolized her mother. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her sons to still be retired.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent mother.

Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Nature, Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 200 gp. Chalcedony (20 gp). Smoky quartz (20 gp). Red-brown spinel (140 gp). Rich purple corundum (500 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.