Description: This northern woman wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath her coat. Her clothes are grease stained in places. She has shaved her head bald. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: Jane hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her writing career. 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, Jane is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: She was born in the north, but her parents moved at a very young age to the west. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered writing. She has never given up on her writing dream.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and regain custody of her daughter

Ideals: Artistic, Justice. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 290 gp.

Description: The man speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. He seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if he got out from a pool a few moments ago. He wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). He keeps his black fur in a pixie cut. His eyes are likewise hazel. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and he is greedy

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Rich, Religious. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 160 gp. Rhodochrosite (11 gp).

Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking western young adult. She wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with red lining and desert motifs. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. Her hair is red and curly. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. She has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: The child of western immigrants she idolized her father. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and she is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Slave, Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 90 gp.

Description: A moderately attractive woman, she is wearing a tight pastel one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. Her red fur is slicked back into a classic pompadour. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. She is harsh and unforgiving.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Like her mother and her brother before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Mercenary. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Mercenary.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Mercenary responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 140 gp. Chrysoberyl (60 gp).

Description: He is in excellent shape and wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. His blue crest is lengthy. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: Here is a man who knows he is the smartest in the room. He talks down to others constantly. He is a thrill seeker, he laughs at people and throws down challenges. He is highly competitive and combative.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Vrondiss grew up listening to his mother's many stories. Vrondiss abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature trident.

Motivation: He doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes.

Ideals: Athletic, Impeccable. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This woman stands a little under 5'2" and is a bit bulky. She is very muscular particularly in the legs. She is renowned for her bright violet dresses and hats. Her red hair is greasy and uncared for. Her gray unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. She is a great chef.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Brilliant and gifted she never wanted to apply herself. When she grew older, she became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. She began work as a mercenary for hire. She would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy blonde stubble. She wears skinny pants and wears a black and violet robe with the hood down. She has a hunchback. With wild blonde hair. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. The occasional robbery is her preferred attention getting crime, but she mainly uses her means for meeting her own perverse desires.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. Her parents enrolled her in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that she could practice her psionic talents. She then took over the family business and is one of the better Bricklayer for hire.

Motivation: She feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Criminal record, Nature. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: A thin woman, she clearly needs to put on some weight, but she still has a lot of muscle. She is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing white cape and mantle trimmed with soft brown waves gently in the breeze. Her white hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a skull scrunchie. Her gray eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: Quiet and reserved she prefers to listen than to talk. She will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. She claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day she will do what she thinks is right.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Masseuse arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a son. Some 10 years later her spouse died after the birth of her son. Heartbroken, Lidda never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her son whom she trained as her father had trained her before.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Ideals: Athletic, Justice. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, In love. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 200 sp.

Description: A woman with a warm, jovial air about her, she wears a large hat to cast shadows over her face and wears ponchos to better hide her body. Her auburn hair is greasy and uncared for. Her eyes are amber and catlike.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. She has all her life been fascinated with writing.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. 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 south. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Laborer they were divorced and she won custody of their daughter. She worked as a Marshal, and she later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: She seems to be bored by most things; and to reunite with her absent mother

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 390 gp.