Description: This malnourished woman wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. She has moderate length chestnut hair. Her violet eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: A deeply religious woman she believes everything happens for a reason. She is a ruthless business woman, a trait she acquired from her father.

History: Vani was born in the east. At a young age she loved to build and create. A serious injury left her father unemployed and in need of constant care. Her family became saddled with debt trying to care for her infirm father. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Her religion dominates her actions; and to pay off her debts

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Persistence. Bonds: Poor, Religious, Debt. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: 5'5" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He wears professional attire. His silver hair is lengthy. His fierce violet eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He is fixated on the number 64. He counts his steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. He seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. He pushes his goals aggressively. He is also a coward if confronted.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Being born in the east, 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 east 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 north. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent mother.

Flaws: Insane, Fearful, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 30 pp.

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He is dressed in a clean white cloak covering his clean studded leather. His black hair is unkempt and raggedy. His gray eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He is shy and timid. He has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. 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 hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk.

Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Disease. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 3000 cp.

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. With bright golden hair and a scraggly beard. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious western family, he was no stranger to responsibility. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered dancing. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 12 years.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and his religion dominates his actions

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Poor, Job, Religious. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 800 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This tall, slender woman wears light armors faded through time and improper care. Her tied-back hair is blonde. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

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 does not believe in violence as a means to an end. She is a dedicated Stableman but believes her peers are too gung-ho.

History: Born to a Shepherd, her mother struggled to pay the bills. Ostracized due to the necromantic powers of her oldest brother, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Halflings became a terror of the countryside. She was granted necromantic powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion.

Ideals: Disciplined, Pacifist, Gifted. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 10000 cp. Blue quartz (9 gp). Chrysoprase (80 gp). Emerald (400 gp). 3 Holy water.

Description: This western woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She wears brown leather gloves, a brown jacket, and tight pants. Her white hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. She has several tiny emerald earrings on each ear.

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. She is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in her opinion.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. Elysande was a troubled youth. She spent her days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent her evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Elysande decided she wanted neither the life of her mother nor that of the evil petty criminals she associated with. During her early adolescence, she took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. 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 is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions.

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record, Mentor. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 1900 gp. A necklace of small pink pearls (6000 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (6000 gp). Solid gold idol (900 gp).

Description: She wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her warhammer with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. Her skin is fair and her fingers are delicate and long. She has a long red ponytail with little hanging trinkets. Her eyes are likewise blue. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: She is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. She is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Her first spouse was a Ruler, they had one son, but her spouse won total custody. Without her spouse to temper her she grew out of control. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion; and to unite with her brother

Flaws: Shy, Lazy, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 4000 cp. Banded agate (4 gp).

Description: He wears tan trousers with blue and yellow striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts, and he perpetually has his axe ready. His moppish silver hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Mercenary born in the past three hundred years. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Mercenary but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Mercenary.

Motivation: He is greedy.

Ideals: Fighting, Pacifist. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he dresses like a well dressed Ruler does. His black hair is greasy and uncared for. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. He is kind towards other men and children and will generally offer men help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to him.

History: Gerbo was raised in a hard working conservative environment. A gifted student he started as a Beggar, but he got bored and became a Ruler. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Ruler for the past few years.

Motivation: Expand his business.

Ideals: Opinionated, Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 200 sp. 1 Masterwork Heavy wooden shield.