Description: 5'4" and lanky with angular features, she is an attractive figure. She wears a fancy blue dress. With wild chestnut hair. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: Stoic and calm, she prefers to meditate than take action. 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: Xanaphia was born the youngest of three triplets. 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. She has dedicated herself to building a better village for her children.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends.

Ideals: Disciplined. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Criminal record, Adventurer. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 2000 gp.

Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she dresses like a well dressed Guard does. Her chestnut hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a wide-brimmed hat. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She hates brigands. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She loves being with her children and actually smiles when they are around. She would do anything for them. She dislikes her ex a great deal.

History: She got into the Guard business at a young age. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Guard hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She has achieved small success as a Guard.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud.

Bonds: Job, Enemies, Family, Poor. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: She is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. She cuts an attractive figure and her suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. She has shaved her head bald. Her eyes are blue.

Personality: A deeply religious woman she believes everything happens for a reason. She plays an instrument quite well.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. Her family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The mother sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. She saw this and took pride in her mother's willingness to do anything to win. She used her abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions; and she is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Poor, Criminal record. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 13000 sp.

Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic left hand, he wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. His crest is blue and curly. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines gold.

Personality: This man loves dancing and to teach people dancing more than just about anything. He is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: Kriv was born in the south. At a young age he loved to build and create. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered dancing. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister

Ideals: Artistic, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Lazy. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He is dressed in earthy colors with a black and brown handkerchief worn on his left side. He wears a colorful flower in his bronze crest. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. 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 blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. A few years later when the east was not economically sound they moved to his current location. Lacking all sense, he decided to go on an adventure. He picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and he's looking for his big break

Ideals: Optimist, Athletic. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Immigrant. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 1500 gp. Golden yellow topaz (1500 gp). Sardonyx (30 gp). Blue quartz (5 gp).

Description: With white face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. His yellow fur is still thick. His eyes are copper and beady.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Guard but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the south; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Justice, Pacifist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Nature. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 160 gp.

Description: A man of a pale complexion, he tends to wear a large grey jacket. His brown hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. He has gleaming, smiling blue eyes.

Personality: He is curt in most of his responses. He prefers to keep his word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. He disdains his fellow northerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: He was born in the north, but his parents moved at a very young age to the south. He was a friend to animals and a trickster. In his defense of animals however he would do severe harm to people. He was granted necromantic powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and to reunite with his old friends

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Immigrant, Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 110 gp. Hematite (10 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. She wears a deerstalker hat to cover her moderate length silver hair. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: Akta is depressed about a lot of things. She tends to be a nihilist. She has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Akta was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. She went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. She is searching for what she claims is her rightful reward.

Motivation: She feels kind of lost in life; and she is terrified, and will act out of fear

Flaws: Depressed, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor, Religious. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: Cloth of gold vestments (80 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (700 gp).

Description: She is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright brown and white, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. Sporting a blonde mohawk this woman's hair draws a lot of attention. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. She also is a firm believer in the womanly ideal.

History: Heir to a fortune, her parents put a great deal of effort into curing her disease. Like her mother and her sister before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Banker. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 12 years.

Motivation: To prove her worth to the world.

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Impulsive, Disease. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 1300 gp.