Description: This man is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of his veins is visible when he is not flexing. His shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for him due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. His head has been shaved. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he 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 he does not care how it got done.

History: He was born in a small plains village. Frederick 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 was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Persistence, Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: He has a missing right arm. He wears dark leathers with embroidery. His blonde hair is singed and shortened. This gray eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He is happy with his job as a Marshal. He turns his eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. He lacks moral complications. He does what he is told to by employers but not much else. He spends his money on whatever he fancies at the time.

History: He was born in the east. Being born in the east, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the east for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way west. He struck the Marshal job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Marshal responsibilities is difficult; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She is a mite stocky and wears brown trousers with green and blue striped suspenders. She wears various colorful collared shirts. She has a long golden ponytail with little hanging trinkets. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

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. Emma is a bit of a follower. Usually she is manipulated by her brothers into helping them out, but recently she has become more of a free agent.

History: The child of western immigrants she idolized her mother. At a young age both her parents were killed in an accident. Her uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took her in and had her trained in basic self defense. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

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

Bonds: Job, Family, Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 600 gp.

Description: A moderately attractive man, he wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy blonde hair. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He likes to make people angry or surprised. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: He got into the Shepherd business at a young age. Through the years after Anselm was born, his father became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the north. Anselm's father didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and retire the richest man in the north

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insomniac, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: Just what you see.