Description: She wears a brown tunic with black highlights, and long brown pants that bunch up around her shoes. Her attire stands in sharp contrast to her monstrous two handed axe, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a card on it. She wears her blonde hair up. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She is a very philanthropic person; she spends her free time working at various soup kitchens. The war was a terrible time for her, and Melissa does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: Her mother raised her in a mountain cabin. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. Some 9 years later her spouse died after the birth of her son. Heartbroken, Melissa never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her son whom she trained as her father had trained her before.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out; and she loathes her own lifestyle

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Military, Nature, In love, Slave. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: He appears as an extremely gaunt Tiefling, and stands approximately 6'0". He prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. He carries his fan with him everywhere and carries himself as the perfect gentleman, and his gloved hand is found clutching a crossbow. His Stetson hat is riddled with cuts and holes. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: He has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Sage who has hired him part-time. He lacks restraint and is impulsive. He jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: A child with a great deal of poetry talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He has recently attracted an admirer that believes he's playing hard to get.

Motivation: Wants a kiss; and he is greedy

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Rich, Has a crush. Occupation: Sage

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: Her left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise she appears quite healthy. She tends to wear a black poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt. Her hair, while still mostly brown, has prominent grey streaks. She tend to wears goggles to shield her eyes.

Personality: She is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Aym is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Aym was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. 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 has since married many spouses, only to have them die. She claims to not be responsible.

Motivation: She's looking for her big break; and she desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Mentor, In love, Adventurer. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 11000 cp. Violet garnet (500 gp). Deep blue spinel (500 gp). Alexandrite (500 gp).

Description: With brown face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing grey cape and mantle trimmed with soft white waves gently in the breeze. He wears his golden hair up in a very large beehive style do. He is baby faced.

Personality: He has schizophrenia that causes him to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. Despite his manner, he is extremely passionate and proud of his job, and he prides himself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: John lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. His father disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his father, he was betrayed dozens of times. He's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and further expansion of business

Flaws: Disease, Addict. Bonds: Rich, Job, Family. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She wears a fancy white dress. Her brown hair is thinning but still full. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. A true patriot, Gorga would do anything for her country. She is fiercely protective of her fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: Heir to a fortune, her parents put a great deal of effort into curing her disease. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally.

Flaws: Insane, Shy, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Rich. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 400 pp. Malachite (14 gp). Sardonyx (30 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. He has dyed his greying black hair a little too much giving a sharp black color. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He snorts whenever he laughs or is feeling confident. He is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: His martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. Being born in the south, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the south for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way east. After a long history of fighting, Damakos and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and he wants to get laid

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Has a crush. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 100000 cp. Deep blue spinel (600 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. He has several tiny opal earrings on each ear.

Personality: He hates Humans with a passion. As such he is filled with self loathing. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: The child of western immigrants he idolized his father. Peter was born on a far western island where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Spice Merchant. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Halfling compassion.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Rich, Religious, Immigrant. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 6000 cp.

Description: This western woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She is well dressed, constantly wearing a pastel suit, red shirt, and grey tie. Her broad hat is riddled with cuts and holes. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks her mind. Energy wise she seems alert and responsive.

History: Drifting was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her mother was employed at, doing general labor. Drifting was born on a far western forest where she grew up under the tutelage of her mother, an expert Assassin. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: She's in love; and she is wracked by social anxiety

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: He wears a brown shirt with thin white vertical stripes and tan pants. He carries a battered monstrous two handed axe and tarnished shortspear as well. He keeps his orange fur in a flapper bob. His blue eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He is a bit of a macho man and will challenge people to random contests of strength and skill, and invite them to random hunting and fishing trip.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. He has had some formal music training, and achieved minor success. 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. Aura fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

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; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Justice, Artistic. Bonds: Nature, Poor. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 300 gp. Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (400 gp).