Description: She wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. Her blonde hair has been sun bleached extensively. She has a dull look in her brown eyes.

Personality: She is a sleazy, sleazy gal. She has no qualms about using her powers of suggestion to get people to do what she wants. She is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. She likes to tell stories.

History: Born in the west to a Ruler, Isabella learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. She helped her mother out around the business and became quite the natural. She then took over the family business and is one of the better Ruler for hire.

Motivation: She loathes her own lifestyle; and wants to open a new tavern

Flaws: Fearful, Depressed. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Job. Occupation: Ruler

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

Possessions: 200 sp.

Description: She dresses like a well dressed Knight does. She cuts an attractive figure and her suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. She has done her best to style her purple hair to look like a famous performer. Her white eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: Ishte is depressed about a lot of things. She tends to be a nihilist. She also hits on women, regardless of circumstances.

History: She got into the Knight business at a young age. She worked as a nervous Knight and found it very stressful. She tends to her Knight job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: She's attracted to the PC; and she would like to get married and retire

Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Job, Attractive, Has a crush. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 4 Holy water.

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she likes to wear grey tank tops with tan skirt. She has done her best to style her auburn hair to look like a famous performer. She has a tattooed 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 loves being with her children and actually smiles when they are around. She would do anything for them. She dislikes her ex a great deal.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her mother always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. Being born in the west, 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 west 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 north. Being a Carpenter 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: An old rival family wants her found; and she has money and likes to spend it

Flaws: Cynical, Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 2000 cp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She wears a grey cloak and cross-gartered green stockings. Her brown hair is singed and shortened. Her blue unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Ermina is a sociable creature first and foremost. She loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. She can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. She is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of her. She is by nature obliging.

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

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and to reunite with her old friends

Ideals: Athletic, Extrovert. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Shy. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: German accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: Her right side is far more bruised and cut up than her other. She wears bulky black painted plate armor. Her crest is cut close to her head. Her gold unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She is irritable and easily angered. She is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use her stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. Hillanot is a bit of a follower. Usually she is manipulated by her brothers into helping them out, but recently she has become more of a free agent.

History: She was born in the west. Her father disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her father, she was betrayed dozens of times. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Bookbinder and was forced into it by her family; and marry her brother to traveling adventurers

Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 3000 cp.

Description: She wears a red costume with the symbols of the four houses of cards on her torso. She has relatively light skin and is very physically imposing due to her abundance of muscles. Her golden hair is wavy and long. She has several tiny amethyst earrings on each ear.

Personality: She seems absolutely devoid of it. She stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. She is very protective of her business, her home, and her spouse. She is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: She was raised in a desert tribe. She graduated from the Naval Academy and went to see the world at the rank of Ensign. She advanced relatively quickly due to her good work ethic, understanding of the chain of command, and natural leadership ability. After months of barely getting by, Trym managed to ambush a major caravan with a load of valuables. Instantly wealthy, she made her way to the capital under a new identity.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and she feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help

Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record, Nature, Military. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He wears a grey shirt with thin black vertical stripes and brown pants. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. His blonde hair and beard is wavy and long. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Baern is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and a strong sense of loyalty to halfling people

Ideals: Justice, Fighting. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 210 gp.

Description: He is an average looking southern male in his early mid-life. He very much looks the part of a Barber. His golden hair is thinning but still full. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are hazel.

Personality: He is quite rude, and likes to deride his opponents skill and shout insults at them. He would rather hide behind his crafts than deal with other people.

History: The child of a Dyer, who enjoyed hunting, Seebo was taken on many hunting expeditions. 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 Barber. He has worked as a Barber like his mother before him.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and to be a dyer again

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic, Shy. Bonds: Job, Nature. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: This eastern woman wears a black vest and prefers pastel and green shirts. Her boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. Her clothes are grease stained in places. Her red crest is singed and shortened. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: Here is a woman who knows she is the smartest in the room. She talks down to others constantly. Her philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: When she was but 8 years old her parents immigrated from the east. Her mother was very strict, and drilled into her lessons on being the perfect lady. She left for the east, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and she feels the way she acts is they only way to get by in the world

Ideals: Impeccable, Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 1000 cp. 1 Darkwood Shield.