Description: Her right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise she appears quite healthy. She wears well tailored gowns and hats with beautiful decoration. She is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. Her copper crest is braided into rings. She has red eyes and a black hat with a blue feather.

Personality: She considers herself a woman of culture and sophistication. She likes a good challenge to her wits. She has all her life been fascinated with writing.

History: Born in the west to a Guard, Sora learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She has achieved small success as a Guard.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and she feels the way she acts is they only way to get by in the world

Ideals: Impeccable, Artistic. Bonds: Rich, Job, Attractive. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 30 pp. Blue quartz (6 gp).

Description: She is renowned for her bright yellow dresses and hats. She keeps her long auburn hair kept up in a rat tail. Her green eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Joan will drive conversation. She is always in debt, since she spends her money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: Born to a Painter, her father struggled to pay the bills. She worked as a nervous Performer and found it very stressful. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and she feels kind of lost in life

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Impulsive, Depressed. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 400 sp. Eye agate (6 gp). 1 Good lock.

Description: He has a missing right leg. He wears tattered old clothes. He wears his red hair down. His brown eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He likes to make people angry or surprised. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Hedonist. Occupation: Bather

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 400 gp. White pearl (150 gp). Tourmaline (150 gp). 1 Darkwood Shield. 1 Banded mail. 1 Masterwork Heavy wooden shield.

Description: This western man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He prefers to wear flannel. His chestnut hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. He has several tiny ruby earrings on each ear.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. He is afraid of men and trembles around them

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and money/treasure

Ideals: Passionate. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Rich, Slave. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: German accent

Possessions: Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (150 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She prefers to wear flannel. She is physically well-built. Her hair is black and curly. Her violet eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She is someone who is used to having a large amount of sex appeal. She also lacks a concept of privacy and shares just about everything. Energy wise she seems alert and responsive.

History: She was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family Since her mother passed away years ago, her father had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of specialists.

Motivation: She has decided she is irredeemable.

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 140 gp. Eye agate (4 gp). Sard (40 gp).

Description: She wears a large hat to cast shadows over her face and wears ponchos to better hide her body. Her attire stands in sharp contrast to her sword, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a card on it. Her silver hair is greasy and uncared for. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: Ielenia 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. She is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Half-Elves.

History: Born in the north to a Weaver, Ielenia learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. Like her father and her sister before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Weaver. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 11 years.

Motivation: To unite with her sister; and marry her sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 160 gp. Jade (70 gp). 2 Antitoxin.

Description: He wears long strands of amber and short yellow dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths, and he perpetually has his sickle ready. His red hair and beard is wavy and long. His fierce green eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He is envious of other's things. He hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that he so desires. He will do just about anything if he becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this he is easily convinced.

History: He was born at the edge of vast mountains. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and he's attracted to the pc

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Greedy. Bonds: Rich, Has a crush, Nature. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 20 gp. Red spinel (60 gp).

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He is renowned for his bright white suits and hats. He has styled his blonde hair well, parting it to the left. He is baby faced.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He feeds upon the attention of others.

History: Born in the south to a Mason, Ur-Lasu learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 4 years.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 100 sp.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She wears well tailored gowns and hats with beautiful decoration. She is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. Her chestnut hair is heavily combed to the left. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. She is an amazing painter.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Being born in the west, 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 west 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 south. 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: Regain custody of her son.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Sensitive, Disease. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 60 pp.