Description: He sports blue clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His half smiles and gray eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He is harsh and unforgiving.

History: He comes from a rich southern family. He was an apprentice working in his father's forge. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 10 years.

Motivation: Expand his business; and he uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Job. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 200 sp.

Description: She prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for her hunting needs. She is portly but not overly obese. Her silver hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Healer who has hired her part-time. She refers to her adoptive mother for almost all things she is unsure about, which are numerous. She is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. She went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Has a crush, Family, Religious. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 20 gp.

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy golden stubble. She has a large white mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into her pastel robe. She has a hunchback. She has a very tight haircut. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. She is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. A few years later when the south was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To be a Cartwright again.

Ideals: Opinionated, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This woman is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of her veins is visible when she is not flexing. Her shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for her due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. Her golden hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. Her skin is flawless and her hazel eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: She is someone who is used to having a large amount of sex appeal. She also lacks a concept of privacy and shares just about everything. 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 happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Blacksmith arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Her mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: She uses money and sex appeal to get what she needs.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 300 sp.

Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic left leg, he likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. He has done his best to style his red hair to look like a famous performer. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady silver eyes.

Personality: He is curt in most of his responses. He prefers to keep his word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. He enjoys reading and quiet.

History: Chem was born the youngest of three triplets. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: To unite with his brother; and regain custody of his son

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 1700 sp.

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he typically wears black cloth garments or leather armor. His bronze crest is smooth and relatively long. His red eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. As he has aged he has sought to do reparations for his actions as a youth. He is also making sure that his compatriots who never received punishment for their crimes are brought to justice.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. Through the years after Rathkran was born, his father became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the north. Rathkran's father didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day.

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Depressed, Antagonistic. Bonds: Criminal record, Military. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: She wears tan trousers with green and brown striped suspenders. She wears various colorful collared shirts, and carries kukris. Her auburn hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a feathered hat. Her eyes are violet and catlike.

Personality: She is fixated on the number 33. She counts her steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. She seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. The war was a terrible time for her, and Tenena does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: She was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Tenena grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Tenena. Recently a tribe of dire rats attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Tenena fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and seeks redemption

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Insane, Depressed. Bonds: Military, Criminal record. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: 600 gp. Obsidian (15 gp). Violet garnet (700 gp).

Description: This woman is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of her veins is visible when she is not flexing. Her shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for her due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. Her hair, while still mostly red, has prominent grey streaks. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She acts crazy and hedonistic. She is accommodating to her spouse and as such limits her hospitality. She is brave and levelheaded in the face of danger and has proven herself a capable leader.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her father. At a young age she wooed the heart of her future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. Some 3 years later her spouse died after the birth of her daughter. Heartbroken, Seddit never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her daughter whom she trained as her father had trained her before.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, In love. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 220 gp.

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he is dressed in earthy colors with a violet and black handkerchief worn on his right side. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His eyes are green and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is a man who does what he needs to. He will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. He is a great chef.

History: Heward hails from a village terrorized by dire rats. He always admired arcane-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He tends to his Dilettante job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: Marry his brother to traveling adventurers; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Criminal record, Enemies, Job, Family. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 380 gp.