Description: The light-skinned man stands 4'11" and does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. His brown hair is braided into rings. His hazel eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. 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, Gerard is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. He always admired psionic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He was granted psionic powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: He is wracked by social anxiety; and he is terrified, and will act out of fear

Ideals: Justice, Gifted. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Enemies, Poor. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: A woman with a calm yet intense air about her, she wears long strands of amber and short brown dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. She has dyed her greying white hair a little too much giving a sharp white color. Her amber eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: This woman loves painting and to teach people painting more than just about anything. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Butcher arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Her family was turned out during the war. She and her family wandered north to less war torn lands. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: She is greedy.

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: PTSD. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 1 Silk rope.

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he tends to wear a large white jacket. He wears his black hair up. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with his opinion, he thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, he can get violently argumentative. More though he will beg to come along on any journeys. He will attempt to stowaway on any ship he can in the hopes that it will get him further away.

History: Born in the north his family was never financially stable. He was one of the best in his class, and was picked up by his current employer. He quickly showed his capability and was soon promoted to a head role. He's also a talented Sailor, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and he desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Opinionated. Bonds: Slave, Poor, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 200 sp.

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates her frame. Her chestnut hair has been sun bleached extensively. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: Prosperine is a sociable creature first and foremost. She loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. She can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. Around other people she will do her best to conceal her emotions and appear jolly.

History: Prosperine was born the youngest of three triplets. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She has became unsatisfied with her lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Adventurer, Military. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 11000 cp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This fat western man has a bulbous nose and is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing brown cape and mantle trimmed with soft tan waves gently in the breeze. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His black hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. His eyes are amber.

Personality: He is fixated on the number 18. He counts his steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. He seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. He is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. He likes to tell stories.

History: Born in the west to a Stableman, Rurik learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Stableman responsibilities is difficult; and to be a cook again

Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 40 pp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a white coat. He keeps his chestnut hair in a flapper bob. His brown eyes dart from person to person.

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. Curran is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his brothers into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: He was born in the west, but his parents moved at a very young age to the east. While he appears to be a normal Halfling, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Athletic, Joker. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 1800 sp. Chrysoberyl (40 gp). Iolite (60 gp). Deep blue spinel (900 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: An imposing woman with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic right leg, she prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for her hunting needs. Her hair is cut close to her head. Her brown eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Joan embodies much of what other species detest in the Humans. She is used to getting what she wants. In part because she is a meticulous planner.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her father gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her father, who blamed her for driving them apart. After a long history of fighting, Joan and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and she is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Addict, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Religious. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 2000 cp.

Description: He wears black painted combat armor at almost all times. He carries with him a set of bastard swords, each one with a jet on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. With a patchy silver beard and wild silver hair. He has several tiny jet earrings on each ear.

Personality: He has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Slave Trader who has hired him part-time. He takes great joy in being the best Slave Trader in town.

History: He comes from a rich eastern family. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. He tends to his Slave Trader job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Slave Trader responsibilities is difficult; and to be a detective again

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Rich, Has a crush, Job. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 1300 sp. 1 Silk rope.

Description: This slender woman stands about 5'1". She wears long strands of amethyst and short pastel dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. She wears her black fur up. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: Her tongue was cut out and she uses sign language. When she's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, she's doing poetry.

History: She was born several months after her mother was called into army service. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Sailor. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Sailor for the past few years.

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

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Rich, Military, Job. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 100 gp.