Description: A plain young-adult woman, she wears a black coat over a white low-cut shirt, and a top hat upon her head. Her blue hair is heavily combed to the right. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She tends to agree with only herself unless someone else's opinion sounds like she can profit from it. She tries to control her temper but she can't always stop herself from what she feels what must be done. She has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Spy arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. She was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: Marry her sister to traveling adventurers; and she desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 40 gp. Violet garnet (300 gp). 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: She appears as an extremely gaunt Half-Elf, and stands approximately 5'7". She wears well tailored gowns and hats with beautiful decoration. She is almost always dressed for an outing in high society, and her gloved hand is found clutching a rapier. She has dyed her greying red hair a little too much giving a sharp red color. Her ears are large.

Personality: She misses her glory days as an athlete. She does not mind her job, but it is boring in comparison. Melissa enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Her martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Her mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and she is greedy

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 40 pp.

Description: With green face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he prefers to wear grey clothing when he does not wear armor. His moppish silver hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His eyes are amber and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is witty, but his monotone delivery comes off as unnerving He is cautious and jumpy. He reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. He sought a place where he would be rewarded solely on the merits of his skills. This search led him directly into Architect work with an outfit from a few towns over. Architect work suited him well, and with each successful project, he earned more gold and more respect from his peers. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Architect for the past few years.

Motivation: To protect his home; and to clean up the streets

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Poor, Job, Guardian. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: Coral (80 gp).

Description: This light-skinned female wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with white lining and desert motifs. She is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. Her tied-back hair is white. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help her friends. She considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. She loves teas. She is very sensitive about her face. To blow off anger she lifts weights and to control her otherwise explosive temper she works out a lot.

History: Born to a Healer, her father struggled to pay the bills. 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. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her sons to still be retired.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and to unite with her sister

Ideals: Optimist, Fighting. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Poor, Family. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 4000 cp. 1 Alchemist’s fire.

Description: He is a physically imposing dark-skinned man. He wears baggy tan pantaloons and a blue scarf. His hair, while still mostly silver, has prominent grey streaks. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He likes to fabricate stories about his past exploits and how crazy he is, but in actuality he is rather bland. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Erdan was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. In his 16th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Flaws: Mundane, Fearful, Addict. Bonds: Mentor, Family. Occupation: Engraver

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

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: He tends to wear a large white jacket. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. His auburn hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. His hazel eyes peer out from beneath his feathered white hat.

Personality: A deeply religious man he believes everything happens for a reason. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Bowyer but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: He was born in the west, but his parents moved at a very young age to the south. Like his father and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Bowyer. He left for the west, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and he feels kind of lost in life

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Religious, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She wears a green cloak and cross-gartered blue stockings. She is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly warhammers and swords. She has done her best to style her scarlet crest to look like a famous performer. Her gold eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She exudes charisma. She is a tour de force of persuasion. 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 was a bastard born out of an affair, and her father always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered writing. She has never given up on her writing dream.

Motivation: She has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day; and she is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Criminal record, Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Breastplate.

Description: She is a paragon of her species. She is larger and stronger than most Dwarves. Her skin is light but she possesses many black ritualistic tattoos. She wears dark leathers with embroidery. Her silver hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a clover scrunchie. She has gray eyes and a brown hat with a black feather.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. She always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove her into the Crown-heir business.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. She worked as a nervous Crown-heir and found it very stressful. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 9 years.

Motivation: She has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day; and she is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Poor, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 120 gp. Jade (60 gp).

Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking northern young adult. She does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. Her blue hair is smooth and relatively long. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. She passes on several rewards to people in need. She makes a point to leave places better than she found them.

History: Her necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. In her 18th year, her parents were killed by a drow raid, leaving Bune alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to drow demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out; and someone believes her a fraud

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Slave, Enemies. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 130 gp. Chrysoberyl (120 gp). 1 Superior lock.