Description: A stocky darker skinned woman, she wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her longsword with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. Her hazel eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She is mildly Dwarf supremacist, though she does not identify as such. She takes great pride in her work and is very well organized. Her planner is full of calendar events.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

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

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 800 sp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: This dark-skinned female wears baggy violet pantaloons and a brown scarf. She is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. She is bald on top and has large auburn tufts of hair around her ears. She has gleaming, smiling gray eyes.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. Around other people she will do her best to conceal her emotions and appear jolly.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. Cursed with vampirism at a very young age, Myathethil has worked very hard to control her curse. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage.

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Disease. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 30 gp.

Description: He tends to wear a pastel poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. His black fur is knotted and matted. His eyes are blue and catlike.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Being born in the south, 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 south 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 east. He guards a vault combo very seriously as well as the key needed to open it.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Secretive, Disease. Bonds: Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 8000 cp.

Description: This eastern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He wears long strands of ruby and short brown dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. He wears a Stetson hat to hide his balding. His eyes are a pleasant hazel.

Personality: He is a very philanthropic person; he spends his free time working at various soup kitchens. He is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Disease. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 100 gp. Silver pearl (120 gp).

Description: A 3'2" southern woman, she wears a simple white robe with yellow stripes complete with hood. Her chestnut hair is matted, messy, and big. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: Cocky and sure of herself, she believes she is the best Courier born in the past three hundred years. She refers to her adoptive mother for almost all things she is unsure about, which are numerous. She is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: Nikki was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her mother was employed at, doing general labor. 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 Courier. She has worked as a Courier like her mother before her.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother; and regain custody of her son

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Family, Poor. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 14000 cp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This fat northern woman has a bulbous nose and wears a red tunic with white highlights, and long grey pants that bunch up around her shoes. Her skin is also unnaturally pale. Her auburn hair, when down, is lengthy. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She is curt in most of her responses. She prefers to keep her word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. She would rather hide behind her crafts than deal with other people.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Revenge; and a deep hatred of drow

Ideals: Artistic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Poor, Enemies. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 1000 sp. Rock crystal (60 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (11 gp). Deep green spinel (70 gp).

Description: This light-skinned female is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. She is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. With bright golden hair. Her green eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She will rave to anyone who will listen. She lacks restraint and is impulsive. She jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: Susannah lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Flaws: Insane, Impulsive, Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 160 gp.

Description: This man wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty brown coat over it. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized ruby on his right hand. He is bald on top and has large red tufts of hair around his ears. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. He plays an instrument quite well.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: He is greedy; and money/treasure

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac, Terse. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 800 sp. Chrysoprase (60 gp).

Description: This late middle aged man tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look and is in decent physical shape. His red hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His fierce blue eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He is witty, but his monotone delivery comes off as unnerving He refers to his adoptive mother for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. Vonbin was born on a far western desert where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Marshal. He left for the west, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister.

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 200 gp.