Description: Standing 5'0", this woman is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured. Her white fur is greasy and uncared for. Her amber eyes peer out from beneath her feathered pastel hat.

Personality: She resents people who mock her appearance or her, so she has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. Shadow is a bit of a follower. Usually she is manipulated by her brothers into helping them out, but recently she has become more of a free agent.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Her father disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her father, she was betrayed dozens of times. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Healer.

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 an old rival family wants her found

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Job, Debt. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 500 sp.

Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing white cape and mantle trimmed with soft black waves gently in the breeze. She wears a colorful flower in her black hair. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: While she is on the job, she is grim and serious. She understands how dangerous the world is and the need to stay safe. Nogu 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 has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: She is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions; and she will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Her skin has the orange glow of too much sun. She has a large black mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into her white robe. Her red hair is heavily combed to the right. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. She lacks moral complications. She does what she is told to by employers but not much else. She spends her money on whatever she fancies at the time.

History: She was born into a rich family. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Gardener. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Joker. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 800 gp.

Description: Her right side is far more bruised and cut up than her other. She wears a grey armored body suit, with a simple green line shooting up and back down. She is bald on top and has large white tufts of hair around her ears. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She is irritable and easily angered. She is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use her stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

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. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. After a long history of fighting, Heather and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Her religion dominates her actions; and she has a rivalry with the church that dominates her actions

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 4000 cp. A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (110 gp). 1 Hourglass.

Description: 5'8" and lanky with angular features, she is an attractive figure. She wears a tight fitting pastel shirt and pants. Her orange fur is smooth and relatively long. Her half smiles and green eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. 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: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her father. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Disciplined, Fighting, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 5000 cp. Jade (110 gp).

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He is dressed in earthy colors with a brown and blue handkerchief worn on his right side. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His violet eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He has schizophrenia that causes him to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: Lewis was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. 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. Lewis fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To clean up the streets; and to protect his home

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Disease, Shy. Bonds: Poor, Job, Guardian. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 500 sp. Tourmaline (90 gp). Amethyst (90 gp). Zircon (40 gp). 1 Half-Plate. 1 Masterwork studded leather. 1 Darkwood Shield.

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He dresses in white turtlenecks beneath a black coat with brown slacks. He wears his red hair down. He has gleaming, smiling hazel eyes.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. He worked as a nervous Marshal and found it very stressful. He left for the east, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and balancing his hectic life and new marshal responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Job, Religious, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 8000 cp. Sardonyx (80 gp).

Description: He is dressed in an above average manner. He carries with him a set of shortspears on his belt, each one with a opal on the hilt. His hair is white, silky, and of moderate length. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He hates giants. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He lacks moral complications. He does what he is told to by employers but not much else. He spends his money on whatever he fancies at the time.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. A gifted student he started as a Seamstress, but he got bored and became a Apothecary. 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. Don fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To be a Seamstress again; and balancing his hectic life and new apothecary responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Job, Poor. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 20 pp.

Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She is typically in her Marshal uniform. Her bronze crest, when down, is lengthy. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep gold.

Personality: Her tongue was cut out and she uses sign language. As long as the job gets done she does not care how it got done.

History: She was raised in a plains tribe. Cursed with a spirit at a very young age, Furrele has worked very hard to control her curse. She struck the Marshal job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Athletic, Professionalism. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Job, Nature. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: Tiger eye turquoise (5 gp). Black pearl (300 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (600 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (600 gp). Star ruby (600 gp). Blue quartz (5 gp).