Description: A woman with a warm, jovial air about her, she wears brown painted combat armor at almost all times. Her red hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep blue.

Personality: She is a melancholic, but persistent worker. She resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. She is fiercely devoted to her mother, and views her mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-brother.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. She graduated from the Naval Academy and went to see the world at the rank of Ensign. She advanced relatively quickly due to her good work ethic, understanding of the chain of command, and natural leadership ability. By chance she met her brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent mother.

Flaws: Depressed, Disease. Bonds: Family, Military. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 80 gp.

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears dull tan sweaters, loose grey pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath his sweater he keeps a concealed dagger, just in case. He sports a long white beard, and similarly colored long hair. His violet eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. Further he is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: He was born into a rich family. His father was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the south; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Persistence, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic, Addict. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Jeweler

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

Possessions: 5000 cp. Jet (160 gp).

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he dresses in brown turtlenecks beneath a pastel coat with brown slacks. His gray fur is still thick. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. He is accommodating to his spouse and as such limits his hospitality. He is brave and levelheaded in the face of danger and has proven himself a capable leader.

History: The child of northern immigrants he idolized his mother. His mother took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. Some 10 years later his spouse died after the birth of his daughter. Heartbroken, Art never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his daughter whom he trained as his mother had trained him before.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and he's attracted to the pc

Ideals: Passionate. Bonds: Attractive, In love, Immigrant, Nature. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 270 gp. Solid gold idol (300 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (300 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (300 gp).

Description: He wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 5'6" when asserting himself. His gray fur is smooth and relatively long. His eyes are amber.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

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 was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and to be a painter again

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She is wearing a long, brown, dusty cloak. She has moderate length golden hair. Her eyes are amber and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She is happy with her job as a Interpreter. She turns her eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. A friendly and beautiful Human, she is rarely seen without a few beauties around her arms. Though a playboy in all rights, she is no lame duck.

History: She was born several months after her mother was called into army service. A freak accident while working with her Butcher mother left her crippled. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg.

Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Job, Attractive, Military. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: A plain young-adult man, he wears a grey costume with the symbols of luck on his torso. His brown hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His amber eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from him. He is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Human in existence. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Marshal arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Balimaar liked to wander the woods near his home when he was young, something he still likes to do at least once a week. He never liked modest clothing or shoes, so he would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and he developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. 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 has money and likes to spend it; and he would like to get married and retire

Ideals: Justice. Bonds: Religious, Rich, Nature, Has a crush. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 40 gp.

Description: This malnourished woman wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath her coat. Her hair is brown and curly. She has red eyes and a green hat with a white feather.

Personality: She resents people who mock her appearance or her, so she has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. She is always in debt, since she spends her money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Tieflings in the south were limited. She has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: She has decided she is irredeemable; and she is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: This younger middle-aged woman wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition, and a wedding ring on her left hand. Her blonde hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a cross scrunchie. Her eyes are likewise brown.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. She is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. She likes to tell stories.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Verna was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. In her 18th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her mother impaled in their home, and her father beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. She has since married many spouses, only to have them die. She claims to not be responsible.

Motivation: She feels threatened by others.

Flaws: Secretive, Fearful. Bonds: Poor, In love, Mentor. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 1 Thunderstones. 1 Thunderstones.

Description: He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his rapier with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. He carries with him a set of rapiers on his belt, each one with a aquamarine on the hilt. His brown hair is heavily combed to the left. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He fancies himself a trickster and likes to rely on his wits to carry the day. He cares for his older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. He is cautious and jumpy. He reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: To unite with his brother; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Nature. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 240 gp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.