Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright brown and pastel, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. Her red hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. She tend to wears goggles to shield her eyes.

Personality: She is a melancholic, but persistent worker. She resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. Despite her manner, she is extremely passionate and proud of her job, and she prides herself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: Joan was born the youngest of three triplets. She dropped out of school to support her sick mother, and resented it. 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: She seems to be bored by most things; and balancing her hectic life and new body guard responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Depressed, Mundane. Bonds: Rich, Job, Family. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 40000 cp.

Description: He wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty yellow coat over it. He is physically well-built. With bright brown hair and a scraggly beard. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. A fanatic, his devotion to his small selection of gods is unquestionable. He claims to be doing their will and will base all his actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: He was raised in a plains tribe. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions; and to clean up the streets

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Guardian, Religious, Nature, Rich. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 700 gp. Silver pearl (140 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he likes to wear white tank tops with tan pants. His red hair is heavily combed to the right. His eyes are likewise gray.

Personality: He is a Mercenary first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. He was one of the best in his class, and was picked up by his current employer. He quickly showed his capability and was soon promoted to a head role. Being a Mercenary kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends; and he is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Job, Religious, Criminal record, Adventurer. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 30000 cp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: With blue face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized tan coat. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: Her voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl she speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of her tone. She feeds upon the attention of others.

History: A powerful necromancer made her what she is. When Geva reached her early adolescence her Human mother passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, she decided to travel. Her rounds led her into the Army with a few individuals who would become her life-long companions. She is searching for what she claims is her rightful reward.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and she's in love

Flaws: Cynical. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor, Military. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 6000 sp. Aquamarine (1200 gp). 1 Minor magic item.