Description: Runty and weak-looking, she wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her shortbow with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. Her auburn hair is braided into rings. Her hazel eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: Her tongue was cut out and she uses sign language. She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of dire rats once and for all.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Her parents were killed by dire rats in a raid when she was still a young child. The dire rats captured her, and made her a slave and general play-thing. She was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to her deformed appearance. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by dire rats. Virra was horrified and prayed that her father was alright. However, she heard that her father had died fighting off the dire rats.

Motivation: She seems to be bored by most things.

Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Mundane. Bonds: Poor, Enemies. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 100 gp. Sardonyx (40 gp). 4 Antitoxin. 1 Tanglefoot bags. 3 Smokesticks. 3 Smokesticks.

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy golden stubble. She sports brown clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. She has a hunchback. Her hair, while still mostly golden, has prominent grey streaks. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. Energy wise she seems alert and responsive.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. She was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and money/treasure

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly, Secretive. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 110 gp. Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (180 gp).

Description: She wears a large hat to cast shadows over her face and wears ponchos to better hide her body, and carries hand crossbows. She wears a feathered hat to cover her moderate length copper crest. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She considers herself the protector of her home. She feels this is her duty and calling. She disdains her fellow northerners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: A powerful slaver made her what she is. Quespa was born on a far northern desert where she grew up under the tutelage of her father, an expert Courier. She eventually got the idea of being the protector of her homeland from reading books, and has made it her duty.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Guardian, Immigrant, Mentor. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 40 gp.

Description: This fat eastern man has a bulbous nose and is well dressed, constantly wearing a red suit, green shirt, and white tie. His skin is also unnaturally pale. With a patchy auburn beard and wild auburn hair. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: Quiet and reserved he prefers to listen than to talk. He will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. 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, Curran is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: The child of eastern immigrants he idolized his mother. Through the years after Curran was born, his mother became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the east. Curran's mother didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He left for the east, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 130 gp.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy golden stubble. He is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. He has a hunchback. His golden hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He is a jovial happy person, but he is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. He lacks restraint and is impulsive. He jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: Raer was raised in a hard working conservative environment. 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 south. He tends to his Bather job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and expand his business

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: This northern woman wears tattered old clothes. Her clothes are grease stained in places. She keeps her red fur in a flapper bob. Her eyes are likewise amber. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She resents people who mock her appearance or her, so she has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. She tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: When she was but 3 years old her parents immigrated from the north. She was a friend to animals and a trickster. In her defense of animals however she would do severe harm to people. Since then, she has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and revenge

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Nature. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 2000 cp.

Description: He wears a black shirt with thin yellow vertical stripes and violet pants. He wears a colorful flower in his dark red hair. His half smiles and black eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He goes out his way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one he won't accept into his heart. He also has developed a complete distrust of the Sailor profession.

History: Trained by his father for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. He struck the Slave Trader job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions.

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Military, Religious. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 40 pp.

Description: 6'8" and muscular, this southern woman wears black robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally she wears more armor. She prefers to carry a ceremonial dagger, but if one is not available she will default to her hand crossbow. Her crest is red and curly. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage son.

History: Eggren was born the youngest of three triplets. Her mother disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her mother, she was betrayed dozens of times. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found; and to unite with her brother

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 70 gp. Golden pearl (50 gp).

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he wears a simple white robe with tan stripes complete with hood. He has no hair. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He considers himself the perfect gentleman. He makes a point to always show proper etiquette and frequently critiques the etiquette of others. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage daughter.

History: Mûzglob was born the youngest of three triplets. He became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 120 gp.