Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. His red hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. He has gleaming, smiling blue eyes.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with poetry. He constantly tries to fill his life with poetry. He cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist he will grow angry at them.

History: Kody was born the youngest of three triplets. His childhood dream was to be a Soapmaker, but he was a colossal failure. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and balancing his hectic life and new marshal responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, Job, Rich. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 100 pp. Alexandrite (500 gp). Rich purple corundum (800 gp).

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy red stubble. She is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured. She has a hunchback. She has done her best to style her red hair to look like a famous performer. She has gleaming, smiling green eyes.

Personality: She is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. She is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: She was born in the east, but her parents moved at a very young age to the south. She dropped out of school before completing her studies. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She seems to be bored by most things; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Lazy. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 1000 sp.

Description: This man is tall and muscular. He dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. He sports a long black beard, and similarly colored long hair. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. Aldous is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his sisters into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. 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 is greedy; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Athletic, Optimist. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Rich. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 200 gp. Deep green spinel (90 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This northern woman wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with green lining and desert motifs. Her clothes are grease stained in places. She has no hair. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. She is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Crown-heir hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally.

Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Shy. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 200 gp. Malachite (11 gp). Hematite (11 gp). Malachite (11 gp). Eye agate (11 gp). 1 Minor magic item.