Description: With green face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he is dressed in an above average manner. He wears a feathered hat to cover his moderate length white hair. His blue eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends he is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy himself. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: He was born in the west, but his parents moved at a very young age to the north. He has had some formal dancing training, and achieved minor success. He left for the west, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Revenge; and revenge

Ideals: Joker, Artistic. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: Her left side is far more bruised and cut up than her other. She has a large green mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into her blue robe. Her brown hair is still thick. Her ears are large.

Personality: She resents people who mock her appearance or her, so she has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. She is harsh and unforgiving.

History: She was born several months after her mother was called into army service. Through the years after Shax was born, her mother became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the west. Shax's mother didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. 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: To end her boredom; and to find somewhere to settle down

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Mundane. Bonds: Military, Rich. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: Jasper (40 gp).

Description: He is lean but muscular and wears a tight fitting black shirt and pants. His crest is short and rusty. His gold eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He is a hateful person. He taunts others and blames them for his problems. He feeds upon the attention of others.

History: He got into the Bowyer business at a young age. He inherited a moderately successful company from his mother. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and he has money and likes to spend it

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Rich, In love. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Chain shirt.

Description: A plain young-adult man, he wears dull brown sweaters, loose green pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath his sweater he keeps a concealed hand crossbow, just in case. His hair is always cut to a buzz. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. He is kind towards other men and children and will generally offer men help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to him.

History: He is a Maurezhi in disguise. Thorin was born on a far northern desert where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Server. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature hand crossbow.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Immigrant. Occupation: Server

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 100 pp.

Description: She likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather, and she perpetually has her sword ready. Her hair is blonde and curly. Her hazel unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. She is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Fortune-teller arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Leshanna was a troubled youth. She spent her days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent her evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Leshanna decided she wanted neither the life of her mother nor that of the evil petty criminals she associated with. During her early adolescence, she took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

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

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Disease, Shy. Bonds: Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 3000 cp. 1 Superior lock.

Description: His skin is bronze and flawless. He prefers to wear violet pants and tee shirts. He is an epitome of beauty. He wears a colorful flower in his brown hair. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He misses his glory days as an athlete. He does not mind his job, but it is boring in comparison. He will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (140 gp).

Description: He is an average looking western male in his early mid-life. He wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. His golden hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His green unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: He was born in the west, but his parents moved at a very young age to the south. Aside from being a slave or a gladiator, there isn't much legitimate work for Half-Orcs in Ghûra's homeland. Ghûra decided to take the middle way and become a bodyguard. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 5 years.

Motivation: To end his boredom; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Joker, Fighting. Flaws: Disease, Mundane. Bonds: Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 6000 cp.

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she dresses like a well dressed Scribe does. Her hair is red, silky, and of moderate length. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep hazel.

Personality: In the realm of puns, she cannot help herself. She feels obliged to make them. The occasional robbery is her preferred attention getting crime, but she mainly uses her means for meeting her own perverse desires.

History: Her arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. At a young age both her parents were killed in an accident. Her uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took her in and had her trained in basic self defense. She tends to her Scribe job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: She feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Ideals: Joker, Gifted. Bonds: Job, Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 500 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she wears yellow leather gloves, a yellow jacket, and tight pants. Her brown hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She misses her glory days as an athlete. She does not mind her job, but it is boring in comparison. Energy wise she seems alert and responsive.

History: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. While she appears to be a normal Half-Elf, she's... not quite right. Perhaps she's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that she plain doesn't fit in. She guards a vault combo very seriously as well as the key needed to open it.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Athletic, Professionalism, Logical. Flaws: Insane. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 30 gp. An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (30 gp).