Description: She is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior, and carries rapiers. Her silver hair has been sun bleached extensively. Her black eyes peer out from beneath her broad black hat.

Personality: Phelaia hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her writing career. She is a ruthless business woman, a trait she acquired from her mother.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. She has had some formal writing training, and achieved minor success. She now spends her time doing works of charity.

Motivation: She will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact; and she is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic, Entrepeneur, Philantrophist. Bonds: Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 5000 cp.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking western young adult. He wears a blue coat over a black low-cut shirt, and a deerstalker hat upon his head. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His auburn hair is thinning but still full. His gray eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. He is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories he has discovered

History: Frouse was born with his mother's beautiful face. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Joker, Logical. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Slave, Attractive. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 180 gp.

Description: Standing 4'11", this woman is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. Her hair is cut close to her head. Her ears are large.

Personality: She will rave to anyone who will listen. When she's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, she's doing painting.

History: She was born in the south. Being born in the south, 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 south 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 west. By chance she met her brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 270 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He is a husky man, who is wearing a long, white cloak. He wears his auburn hair down. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are gray.

Personality: He is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help his friends. He considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. He is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Howard grew up listening to his father's many stories. A serious injury left his father unemployed and in need of constant care. His family became saddled with debt trying to care for his infirm father. He became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality.

Ideals: Optimist, Logical. Bonds: Adventurer, Debt. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 10 pp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He is an average looking eastern male in his early mid-life. He wears a white coat over a green low-cut shirt, and a top hat upon his head. He has shaved his head bald. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the east. He constantly seizes attention wherever he goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. He likes to think of himself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: He was born at the edge of vast mountains. Ozyman was born on a far eastern mountains where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Baker. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: To end his boredom; and he doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes

Ideals: Pacifist, Impeccable. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Nature, Immigrant. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 100 gp. Black pearl (500 gp).

Description: This northern woman is typically in her Scribe uniform. Her clothes are grease stained in places. Her black crest is singed and shortened. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. She takes great pride in her work and is very well organized. Her planner is full of calendar events.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. She sought a place where she would be rewarded solely on the merits of her skills. This search led her directly into Scribe work with an outfit from a few towns over. Scribe work suited her well, and with each successful project, she earned more gold and more respect from her peers. She hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job.

Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac. Bonds: Job, Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 500 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She prefers to wear flannel. She is portly but not overly obese. Her red hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She is extraordinarily eccentric. She is always in debt, since she spends her money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. Her father was very strict, and drilled into her lessons on being the perfect lady. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: To prove her worth to the world; and she is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Insane, Impulsive. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 100 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: She wears brown robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally she wears more armor. She prefers to carry a rapier, but if one is not available she will default to her scythe. She wears her black hair up in a very large beehive style do. She has gleaming, smiling green eyes.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. She does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for her. She lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Crown-heir responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Rich, Slave, Job. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 150 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp).

Description: She is an average looking western female in her early mid-life. She is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. Her auburn hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a deerstalker hat. Her skin is flawless and her brown eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: Avice was born the youngest of three triplets. When the war came and ruined her parents she was left adrift. She was a hard woman then and has only learned to fight more as time goes on. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her sons to still be retired.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and an old rival family wants her found

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: PTSD. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Family. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 800 sp.