Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he dresses well, wearing brown shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time. His black hair has been sun bleached extensively. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He is a jovial happy person, but he is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. He lacks moral complications. He does what he is told to by employers but not much else. He spends his money on whatever he fancies at the time.

History: Heward was born in the south. At a young age he loved to build and create. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Mason. He has been saving his money to try and buy his sister's freedom.

Motivation: Marry his sister to traveling adventurers.

Ideals: Optimist, Persistence. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Family. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her hair is short and red. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are amber.

Personality: She is a woman who does what she needs to. She will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Naivara was orphaned to a temple shortly after her birth. She was raised by the temple staff to care always for others above herself and to hold her god always in her heart. She would ruin relationships and cause injury. She was reprimanded several times before being given her current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: She has decided she is irredeemable; and she has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Philantrophist. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Criminal record, Religious. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: She wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized blue coat. She is portly but not overly obese. She wears her brown hair down. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. She does not believe in violence as a means to an end. She is a dedicated Assassin but believes her peers are too gung-ho.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

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

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Insane, Secretive. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 110 gp. Blue quartz (10 gp).

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking southern young adult. He wears a red costume with the symbols of death on his torso. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His hair is always cut to a buzz. His brown unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He does not care much for physical appearances, nor does he care much for other people. He does however care about what he wants and getting it. Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Bowyer arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Flaws: Disease, Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Slave, Rich. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She is a small woman, but exceptionally fit. She prefers to wear grey clothing when she does not wear armor. Her silver hair has been sun bleached extensively. Her green eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends she is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy herself. She has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a woman enough she will sell her own mother. Money is her most trusted friend.

History: A child with a great deal of singing talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. She was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: She feels kind of lost in life; and retire the richest woman in the north

Ideals: Athletic, Joker, Artistic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 400 sp.

Description: This younger middle-aged man dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner, and a wedding ring on his right hand. He sports a long brown beard, and similarly colored long hair. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He likes to fabricate stories about his past exploits and how crazy he is, but in actuality he is rather bland. He has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. His parents divorced when he was young, and his mother gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his mother, who blamed him for driving them apart. Some 3 years later his spouse died after the birth of his daughter. Heartbroken, Lucan never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his daughter whom he trained as his mother had trained him before.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC.

Flaws: Mundane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, In love, Poor. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: A thin woman, she clearly needs to put on some weight, but she still has a lot of muscle. She wears a large hat to cast shadows over her face and wears ponchos to better hide her body. Her silver hair is long and unkept. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep hazel.

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 invites people to come help in her community garden.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious western family, she was no stranger to responsibility. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She now spends her time doing works of charity.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions.

Ideals: Athletic, Disciplined, Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. He is physically well-built. His fur is greying and his face has many wrinkles. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of dire rats once and for all.

History: He comes from a rich western family. After coming to the age of reason, Gale took it upon himself to study the martial arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and he desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Enemies, Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 2000 cp.

Description: This malnourished woman is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. She has styled her white fur well, parting it to the right. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She likes to brag about her accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. She does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: Cask was born with her father's beautiful face. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Soapmaker hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and she is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Passionate, Logical. Flaws: Insane, Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Poor. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 260 gp.