Description: This western woman is well dressed, but even with her fine clothing she looks run-down. Her clothes are grease stained in places. She wears a deerstalker hat to hide her balding. Her eyes are a pleasant violet.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food she seems plenty friendly. As she has aged she has sought to do reparations for her actions as a youth. She is also making sure that her compatriots who never received punishment for their crimes are brought to justice.

History: Born to a Soapmaker, her father struggled to pay the bills. She moved out north to avoid the crime she committed. Being a Crown-heir kept her interest for a while, but then she became depressed and bored. So she turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: She will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact; and she is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Philantrophist, Justice. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 2000 cp.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He dresses well, wearing blue shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time. His black hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He is someone who is used to having a large amount of sex appeal. He also lacks a concept of privacy and shares just about everything. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. A freak accident while working with his Scribe mother left him crippled. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He is content; and a rival would like him out of the picture

Flaws: Mundane, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 10 pp.

Description: He has a large green mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into his blue robe. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. He has moderate length silver hair. He has silver eyes.

Personality: He snorts whenever he laughs or is feeling confident. He is an amazing painter.

History: Gifted from a young age, Astar studied abroad. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. Some 3 years later his spouse died after the birth of his son. Heartbroken, Astar never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his son whom he trained as his mother had trained him before.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother; and marry his brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, In love, Family. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: He is a pot bellied western man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He is wearing a long, brown, dusty cloak. His hair is auburn and curly. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: Prone to second guessing himself, he comes off as nervous. He is cautious and jumpy. He reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. In his 13th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: He seems to be bored by most things; and to end his boredom

Ideals: Athletic, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Fearful, Mundane. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 1500 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: An older man who is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time, he is not a threatening figure. He has moderate length auburn hair. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is a Actor first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: He was born in the east. At a young age he wooed the heart of his future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Flaws: Insane, Fearful. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, In love. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This slender woman stands about 5'11". She wears a brown costume with the symbols of death on her torso. She keeps her beige fur in a flapper bob. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: Her voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl she speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of her tone. She moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep her interest for a month it is impressive.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her mother always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. Through the years after Silent was born, her mother became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the west. Silent's mother didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Glassblower they were divorced and she won custody of their daughter. She worked as a Mason, and she later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother

Flaws: Cynical, Hedonist, Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, Slave. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 150 gp. 2 Holy water.

Description: This man wears a white costume with the symbols of the four houses of cards on his torso. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized topaz on his left hand. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy auburn hair. This gray eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He is witty, but his monotone delivery comes off as unnerving He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: He was born in a small forest village. Being born in the west, 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 west 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. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Joker. Bonds: Rich, Nature, Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: Golden pearl (160 gp).

Description: He is a pot bellied northern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears tattered old clothes. His red hair is unkempt and raggedy. This green eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. He has a habit of throwing himself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 600 sp. Coral (140 gp).

Description: She wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates her frame. She carries a battered sai and tarnished rapier as well. She has wavy blue crest. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are red.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. She is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: Nala was raised in a hard working conservative environment. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She tends to her Architect job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Fighting, Disciplined, Athletic. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Job. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 6000 cp.