Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she wears a simple black robe with brown stripes complete with hood. Her long black crest is drawn into a two foot long braid. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: Deceptive and manipulative this eastern gal figured out how to best use her charms to convince people to do what she wants. She is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: She is a Metallic Dragon in disguise. A gifted student she started as a Dyer, but she got bored and became a Marshal. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Marshal.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends.

Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 30000 cp. Silver pearl (160 gp). Deep green spinel (160 gp).

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He is well dressed, constantly wearing a grey suit, yellow shirt, and black tie. He wears a broad hat to hide his balding. His eyes are violet and beady.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: He was raised in a plains tribe. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he is greedy

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Nature, Rich. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She is wearing a long, white cloak. Her silver hair is wavy and long. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the east. She is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: Her mother raised her in a mountain cabin. When she was little, her rather wealthy family often ventured across the mountains to a summer home near a old dungeon. She would wander through that old dungeon and adventure through it for days. One day while adventuring a terrible storm took place and she was stranded inside. Her family spent the next few days looking for her, and could only assume she was dead when it came time to leave. The family never returned to the mountains due to the painful memories there. Merla took refuge in the old dungeon and found the beat up shield and armor she uses now. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Cartwright for the past few years.

Motivation: 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; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Immigrant, Nature, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 30 pp. Red-brown spinel (50 gp).

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she wears just a brown suit. She sports a flattop hair cut. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines gray.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. She does not mind isolation but does not hate company and attempts to receive them as best as possible.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. When Galiena reached her early adolescence her Human father 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 was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of freemasons.

Motivation: Her religion dominates her actions; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Ugly, Secretive. Bonds: Religious, Military. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 1200 gp. Blue star sapphire (1300 gp).

Description: She is lean but muscular and usually wears her black robe and has her sickle always slung over her shoulder. Her green crest is long and unkept. She has gold eyes and a black hat with a grey feather.

Personality: She is cool and collected. She likes to make quips and puns whenever she does anything. She also makes a point to compliment her superiors and flatter them. She is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in her opinion.

History: The child of southern immigrants she idolized her father. Over the years she perfected her riding and shooting skills. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She loathes her own lifestyle.

Ideals: Disciplined, Opinionated. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Nature. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 200 gp. Lapis lazuli (13 gp).

Description: He wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. He wears a colorful flower in his auburn hair. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are brown.

Personality: He cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with his opinion, he thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, he can get violently argumentative. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: The child of a Priest, who enjoyed hunting, Fivin was taken on many hunting expeditions. He worked as a nervous Mortician and found it very stressful. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Mortician for hire.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and balancing his hectic life and new mortician responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Opinionated, Logical. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Nature, Job. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: She is a small woman, but exceptionally fit. She is renowned for her bright black dresses and hats. She has styled her red crest well, parting it to the right. Her eyes are gold and catlike.

Personality: She is unhospitable to her core. Her small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. She has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: She was born in the north. Being born in the north, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the north for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way west. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud; and revenge

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Immigrant, Family, Enemies. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 320 gp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: She wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. She carries with her a set of halberds, each one with a amethyst on the hilt. She only wears one on her belt and the other on her back. Her long brown hair reaches down to her waist. Her eyes are green and beady.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. She is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. She haggles over everything, upselling her goods and buying cheap. She is persistent in everything.

History: She was born several months after her mother was called into army service. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the south; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Military, Mentor. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 40 pp.

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright grey and yellow, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. He has done his best to style his chestnut hair to look like a famous performer. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He likes to fabricate stories about his past exploits and how crazy he is, but in actuality he is rather bland. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: He was born into a rich family. A freak accident while working with his Marshal mother left him crippled. He hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: He is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and retire the richest man in the east

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Mundane, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 400 sp.