Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she wears white painted combat armor at almost all times. Her blonde hair is well kept. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady amber eyes.

Personality: She is irascible and easily irritated. She also is a firm believer in the womanly ideal.

History: She was born into a rich family. Through the years after Arha was born, her father became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the south. Arha's father didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and she's repulsed by the pc

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Impulsive. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: Finely wrought small gold bracelet (40 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (30 gp). Solid gold idol (200 gp). A silver and pearl hairclip (40 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (4000 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (900 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1600 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1600 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (30 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (30 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (30 gp).

Description: He is an average looking southern male in his early mid-life. He wears silk and lounges about seductively. His lavender fur has been sun bleached extensively. He has blue eyes and a pastel hat with a black feather.

Personality: He is happy with his job as a Performer. He turns his eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing singing.

History: Beast lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He worked as a nervous Performer and found it very stressful. He's also a talented Bellfounder, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Family, Military. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 40000 cp.

Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she is generally shirtless and showing off her tattooed chest. Her green crest has been sun bleached extensively. Her eyes are gold and beady.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. She is a thrill seeker, she laughs at people and throws down challenges. She is highly competitive and combative.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Chassath was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. 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 drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature nunchaku.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Mentor, Criminal record. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 1400 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This slender woman stands about 6'5". She is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing black cape and mantle trimmed with soft red waves gently in the breeze. Her chestnut hair is heavily combed to the left. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. A fanatic, her devotion to her small selection of gods is unquestionable. She claims to be doing their will and will base all her actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: Her necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. She graduated from the Naval Academy and went to see the world at the rank of Ensign. She advanced relatively quickly due to her good work ethic, understanding of the chain of command, and natural leadership ability. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Justice, Gifted. Bonds: Rich, Religious, Military. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 390 gp. 1 Breastplate.

Description: This western man is abnormally tall. He tends to wear a grey poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. He has blue eyes.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. He is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Humans.

History: Born in the west to a Blacksmith, Adam learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. While he appears to be a normal Human, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: To be a Mayor again; and expand his business

Flaws: Antagonistic, Racist, Insane. Bonds: Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 100 gp. A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (40 gp).

Description: He is a mite stocky and wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. He has no hair. His eyes are violet.

Personality: He is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as he rather likes the sound of his voice. His demeanor is somewhat feminine. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family He was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record, Adventurer. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 500 gp. Tourmaline (40 gp). Aquamarine (1600 gp). Fire opal (1100 gp).

Description: This woman is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized opal on her right hand. Her brown hair is braided into rings. Her eyes are green and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She exudes charisma. She is a tour de force of persuasion. She has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her father. She inherited a moderately successful company from her father. Under her leadership it has flourished, and using capital from her venture she effectively owns an entire region. She has became unsatisfied with her lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: She uses money and sex appeal to get what she needs.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 3000 cp.

Description: She wears baggy tan pantaloons and a grey scarf. She is portly but not overly obese. She sports silver long hair. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She is extraordinarily eccentric. Energy wise she seems alert and responsive.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Professionalism, Logical. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: 4'7" and muscular, this eastern woman wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. Her moppish golden hair is in a traditional bowl cut. She has several tiny jet earrings on each ear.

Personality: She is business-like. She takes instructions and follows them to the letter. As long as the job gets done she does not care how it got done.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. When Joan reached her early adolescence her Human mother passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, she decided to travel. Her rounds led her into the Army with a few individuals who would become her life-long companions. 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: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Athletic, Professionalism. Bonds: Rich, Military. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 10000 cp. Chalcedony (80 gp). Deep blue spinel (700 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.