Description: 3'5" and muscular, this western woman wears a large hat to cast shadows over her face and wears ponchos to better hide her body. Her tied-back hair is black. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: Quiet and reserved she prefers to listen than to talk. She will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. She is used to getting what she wants. In part because she is a meticulous planner.

History: She was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for her. It may also be what makes her so good at details. A freak accident while working with her Interpreter father left her crippled. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and she has a rivalry with the church that dominates her actions

Ideals: Athletic, Professionalism. Flaws: Shy, Disease, Insomniac. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 5000 gp. Red garnet (160 gp). Golden yellow topaz (200 gp). Rock crystal (70 gp). Rock crystal (70 gp). Amber (160 gp). Red spinel (160 gp). Amber (160 gp). Onyx (70 gp). Zircon (70 gp). Fire opal (1200 gp). Coral (160 gp).

Description: This slender man stands about 2'10". He wears many layers of old clothing at all times. His auburn hair is heavily combed to the right. His eyes are violet and beady.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. Pikar enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. 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. Pikar fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Addict, Hedonist. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 9000 gp. Chrysoprase (40 gp). Alexandrite (600 gp). Deep blue spinel (600 gp). Hematite (4 gp). Red spinel (60 gp). Eye agate (4 gp). Onyx (40 gp). Sard (40 gp). Chalcedony (40 gp). Chrysoberyl (60 gp). Azurite (4 gp). Chrysoprase (40 gp). Sard (40 gp). Sard (40 gp). Violet garnet (600 gp). Black pearl (600 gp).

Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she dresses like a well dressed Ruler does. Her tied-back hair is auburn. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. She is kind towards other women and children and will generally offer women help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to her.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. A gifted student she started as a Barber, but she got bored and became a Ruler. She struck the Ruler job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Insomniac, Secretive. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 1000 pp. Alexandrite (1100 gp). Bloodstone (80 gp). Sard (80 gp). Black opal (1000 gp). Amethyst (40 gp). Black opal (1000 gp). Eye agate (4 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (4 gp). Emerald (1000 gp). Pink pearl (40 gp). Amethyst (40 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1100 gp). Black opal (1000 gp). Aquamarine (1100 gp). Fire opal (1000 gp). Blue sapphire (1000 gp). Chrysoberyl (40 gp). Banded agate (4 gp). White opal (1000 gp). Iolite (80 gp).

Description: This tall, slender man wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. He wears his red crest up. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He loves being with his children and actually smiles when they are around. He would do anything for them. He dislikes his ex a great deal.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. He has had some formal writing training, and achieved minor success. He has never given up on his writing dream.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Professionalism, Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 3000 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is an average looking southern female in her early mid-life. She wears a blue cloak and cross-gartered green stockings. She keeps her red hair in a flapper bob. She is baby faced.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. She is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: Gifted from a young age, Antinua studied abroad. When the war came and ruined her parents she was left adrift. She was a hard woman then and has only learned to fight more as time goes on. She has never given up on her poetry dream.

Motivation: She seems to be bored by most things; and to find somewhere to settle down

Ideals: Gifted, Artistic. Flaws: Terse, PTSD, Mundane. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 900 pp. Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). Gold music box (1000 gp). Old masterpiece painting (700 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (80 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (800 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with brown lining and desert motifs. She has moderate length white hair. Her violet eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. She has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. Before the accident, she was one of the most outspoken anti-Half-Elven activists. She was mortally wounded, saved by a kind and fast-acting Half-Elven doctor. She's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: She is wracked by social anxiety.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Addict, Sensitive, Fearful, Racist. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 8000 gp. Tiger eye turquoise (16 gp). Black pearl (1300 gp). Deep blue spinel (1300 gp). Lapis lazuli (16 gp). Citrine (50 gp). Deep blue spinel (1300 gp). Sardonyx (50 gp). Zircon (50 gp). Amber (50 gp). Red garnet (50 gp). Deep blue spinel (1300 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He wears many layers of old clothing at all times. He has wavy white hair. His eyes are likewise white.

Personality: He is a very happy person and has lots of energy. To put it simply, he's a very lovable idiot. He loves teas. He is very sensitive about his face. To blow off anger he lifts weights and to control his otherwise explosive temper he works out a lot.

History: His arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His childhood dream was to be a Animal Trainer, but he was a colossal failure. He has worked as a Doctor like his father before him.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Optimist, Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 2000 gp. Banded agate (11 gp). White opal (700 gp). Golden yellow topaz (600 gp). Obsidian (11 gp). Rock crystal (60 gp). Black pearl (600 gp). Brown-green garnet (160 gp). Star rose quartz (60 gp). Blue star sapphire (700 gp). Coral (160 gp).