Description: This younger middle-aged man dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head, and a wedding ring on his right hand. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy chestnut hair. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. Bernard enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: He comes from a rich eastern family. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to his current location. 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: Money/treasure.

Flaws: Disease, Hedonist. Bonds: In love, Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. She wears a Stetson hat to cover her moderate length auburn hair. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She has two modes she varies between. On the job she is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job she is a party animal. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: Born in the north to a Guard, Alice learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. Being born in the north, 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 north 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 has worked as a Guard like her mother before her.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and an old rival family wants her found

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Guard

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 800 gp. Iolite (30 gp). Azurite (4 gp). Chrysoprase (30 gp). Aquamarine (1600 gp). 1 Half-Plate.

Description: Her skin has the orange glow of too much sun. She is generally shirtless and showing off her tattooed chest. She sports a flattop hair cut. Her gray eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: Jane hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her poetry career. She passes on several rewards to people in need. She makes a point to leave places better than she found them.

History: Jane lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Jane was born on a far western mountains where she grew up under the tutelage of her father, an expert Fisher. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: Marry her sister to traveling adventurers.

Ideals: Artistic, Philantrophist. Bonds: Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 30000 cp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears an entirely pastel suit with green socks and a vest with buckled shoes. His golden hair has been sun bleached extensively. His eyes are brown and beady.

Personality: He considers himself the protector of his home. He feels this is his duty and calling. He is fiercely devoted to his mother, and views his mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-brother.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Bounty Hunter they were divorced and he won custody of their daughter. He worked as a Dilettante, and he later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: Regain custody of his daughter.

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Guardian, Family, Mentor. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 100 gp.