Description: She is a pot bellied western woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. She carries her fan with her everywhere and carries herself as the perfect lady. Her black hair is matted, messy, and big. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She is happy with her job as a Gardener. She turns her eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. Her brief stint in the army gave her the idea she was invincible and that she is the toughest woman alive.

History: Dara was raised in a hard working conservative environment. She was an apprentice working in her father's forge. She has worked as a Gardener like her father before her.

Motivation: Expand her business; and she is greedy

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Job, Military. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 100 gp. Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (160 gp).

Description: This man is very fat, and wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. His red hair is thinning but still full. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He fancies himself a trickster and likes to rely on his wits to carry the day. He cares for his older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. He is always in debt, since he spends his money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. His father disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his father, he was betrayed dozens of times. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: Marry his brother to traveling adventurers; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Impulsive. Bonds: Family, Rich. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 7000 cp.

Description: This tall, slender man wears a tight fitting brown shirt and pants. He keeps his long silver hair kept up in a rat tail. His blue eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: A powerful brothel owner made him what he is. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world; and money/treasure

Flaws: Addict, Insane, Impulsive. Bonds: Mentor, Rich. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. His white hair is greasy and uncared for. His hazel eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: Azaki was born in the west. At a young age he loved to build and create. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and retire the richest man in the west

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Persistence, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 170 gp. Red garnet (80 gp). Smoky quartz (40 gp).

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She wears a tan shirt with thin grey vertical stripes and black pants. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She is fixated on the number 82. 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. She has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: Orla lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found; and she has money and likes to spend it

Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 5000 cp. Carved bone or ivory statuette (90 gp).

Description: She is an average looking eastern female in her early mid-life. She wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. Her crest is cut close to her head. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: She was born several months after her mother was called into army service. 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. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Immigrant, Military. Occupation: Gardener

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

Possessions: 30 pp.

Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). She sports a flattop crest cut. Her eyes are gold.

Personality: Her tongue was cut out and she uses sign language. 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: When she was but 3 years old her parents immigrated from the south. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. Being a Sellsword 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 has decided she is irredeemable; and she is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Criminal record, Immigrant, Attractive. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 500 sp.

Description: 3'5" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. His red hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. He is baby faced.

Personality: He is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as he rather likes the sound of his voice. His demeanor is somewhat feminine. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: Broce was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Gnomes in the north were limited. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 250 gp.

Description: She is a pot bellied southern woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She sports violet clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. She has styled her red hair well, parting it to the right. Her blue eyes peer out from beneath her small violet hat.

Personality: She is happy with her job as a Sailor. She turns her eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Melissa is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Her mother was a mechanic, and taught her how to fix just about anything. One night she noticed a nearby shooting star which she hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. She has done her darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and balancing her hectic life and new sailor responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Athletic, Justice, Persistence. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 9000 cp. 2 Thunderstones.