Description: This slender woman stands about 2'10". She dresses like a well dressed Sailor does. She has wavy blonde hair. Her eyes are likewise amber. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She hates brigands. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories she has discovered

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 was an apprentice working in her father's forge. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by brigands. Merla was horrified and prayed that her mother was alright. However, she heard that her mother had died fighting off the brigands.

Motivation: To be a Guard again; and revenge

Ideals: Logical, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Enemies. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 20 gp.

Description: This younger middle-aged man has the majority of his body covered in plate, and a wedding ring on his left hand. His hair is silver, silky, and of moderate length. His gray eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He hates giants. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He is always in debt, since he spends his money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: Carrie hails from a village terrorized by giants. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by giants. Carrie was horrified and prayed that his father was alright. However, he heard that his father had died fighting off the giants.

Motivation: Revenge; and someone believes him a fraud

Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: In love, Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 300 sp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: He typically wears violet cloth garments or leather armor. His skin is fair and his fingers are delicate and long. His tied-back hair is auburn. His blue eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes giants are coming to abduct people. He is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: Immeral was born the youngest of three triplets. He dropped out of school to support his sick mother, and resented it. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and doesn't want to be a mayor and was forced into it by his family

Ideals: Joker, Logical. Bonds: Enemies, Family, Job. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 1800 sp.

Description: Her left side is far more bruised and cut up than her other. She wears a brown vest and prefers green and red shirts. Her boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. Her fur, while still mostly red, has prominent grey streaks. Her copper eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. She tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her mother. Right-Handed was born on a far western desert where she grew up under the tutelage of her mother, an expert Painter. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Justice, Optimist, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: He wears a red cloak and cross-gartered white stockings. He has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. His blonde hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. He is baby faced.

Personality: He snorts whenever he laughs or is feeling confident. He is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions; and wants his loneliness to end

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Lazy. Bonds: Criminal record, Has a crush. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 170 gp. Amethyst (150 gp). Lapis lazuli (16 gp).

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He wears a tight fitting black shirt and pants. His rusty crest is kept up in a ponytail inside a wide-brimmed hat. His fierce gold eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He has schizophrenia that causes him to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: Rhogar was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his father was employed at, doing general labor. Cursed with vampirism at a very young age, Rhogar has worked very hard to control his curse. He used his abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends; and he's looking for his big break

Ideals: Gifted, Philantrophist. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 80 pp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. He sports a flattop crest cut. His ears are large.

Personality: A grumpy guy he will invite people to lunch so he can critique them. Yet he still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: Fax was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Like his mother and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Spy. He has achieved small success as a Spy.

Motivation: Expand his business; and to be a knight again

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Shy. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 1500 pp. Jasper (40 gp). Banded agate (14 gp). Malachite (14 gp). Smoky quartz (40 gp). Alexandrite (700 gp). Alexandrite (700 gp). Sardonyx (40 gp). Emerald (1200 gp). Deep blue spinel (700 gp). Red-brown spinel (150 gp). Alexandrite (700 gp). Obsidian (14 gp). Sardonyx (40 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She is an average looking eastern female in her early mid-life. She wears a black costume with the symbols of the sun god on her torso. Her hair is short and white. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She is unhospitable to her core. Her small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. The occasional robbery is her preferred attention getting crime, but she mainly uses her means for meeting her own perverse desires.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Her father worked until she suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. She had to support her now crippled father and took her father's old job. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Cook they were divorced and she won custody of their son. She worked as a Engraver, and she later adopted a second son.

Motivation: She is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and she has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 300 gp. Finely wrought small gold bracelet (10 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (400 gp). A delicate brass dragon egg (10 gp).

Description: This woman stands a little under 5'1" and is a bit bulky. She is very muscular particularly in the legs. She typically wears grey cloth garments or leather armor. With wild auburn hair. Her eyes are green and catlike.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. She is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: She was born in the west, but her parents moved at a very young age to the north. Alice was born on a far western forest where she grew up under the tutelage of her father, an expert Herbalist. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Regain custody of her daughter; and doesn't want to be a herbalist and was forced into it by her family

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Military, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 150 gp. 3 Antitoxin.