Description: This fat southern woman has a bulbous nose and prefers to wear brown pants and tee shirts. Her skin is also unnaturally pale. Her white hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. Her eyes are likewise brown. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Aline will drive conversation. She is obsessed with her god.

History: She was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family She was one of the best in her class, and was picked up by her current employer. She quickly showed her capability and was soon promoted to a head role. She would ruin relationships and cause injury. She was reprimanded several times before being given her current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: She has decided she is irredeemable; and she has a rivalry with the church that dominates her actions

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Religious, Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She is dressed in a clean brown cloak covering her clean studded leather. Her skin is fair and her fingers are delicate and long. Her hair is brown and curly. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She snorts whenever she laughs or is feeling confident. She works hard and plays hard.

History: Elizabeth hails from a village terrorized by brigands. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. By chance she met her brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother.

Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Family. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 50 pp. Rhodochrosite (4 gp). Emerald (1200 gp). Sardonyx (30 gp).

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. She wears a blue cloak and cross-gartered brown stockings. Her golden hair is still thick. Her eyes are blue and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. As long as the job gets done she does not care how it got done.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. 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 north. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well.

Ideals: Persistence, Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Nature, Family. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 4000 sp. Fiery yellow corundum (1200 gp). Banded agate (15 gp). Malachite (15 gp). 1 Alchemist’s fire. 2 Holy water.

Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic right hand, he prefers to wear black pants and tee shirts. His brown hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He goes out his way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one he won't accept into his heart. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: Born to a Fortune-teller, his mother struggled to pay the bills. He found a children's book about a Human Paladin who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. He modeled his life after the story, seeing himself destined a hero. He has dedicated himself to building a better trade route.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk; and he desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Poor. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 40000 cp.