Description: She has a missing right leg. She prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for her hunting needs. Her silver hair is heavily combed to the right. Her fierce hazel eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She is quiet and unassuming. She ignores others and carries on with her job unassumingly. She is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. Melissa was a troubled youth. She spent her days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent her evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Melissa decided she wanted neither the life of her mother nor that of the evil petty criminals she associated with. During her early adolescence, she took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. As of late she has set up a hidden staging nest where she ambushes people she hires for escort.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and expand her business

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Rich, Job, Nature, Criminal record. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 40000 cp. Blue quartz (15 gp). Obsidian (15 gp). Black opal (900 gp). Black pearl (1600 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Farmer. She has slicked back golden hair. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She considers herself a woman of culture and sophistication. She likes a good challenge to her wits. She is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: Born in the south her family was never financially stable. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Farmer hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She has recently attracted an admirer that believes she's playing hard to get.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Lazy. Bonds: Poor, Has a crush, Family. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: Rock crystal (20 gp). Red-brown spinel (150 gp). Black star sapphire (1500 gp).

Description: He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. His auburn hair is smooth and relatively long. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage daughter.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. 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: Wants to raise his children well; and an old rival family wants him found

Flaws: Terse. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Rich. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 500 gp. 1 Full Plate. 1 Chain shirt. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what he was had he not made sure his armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit he wears silk and lounges about seductively. He wears a wide-brimmed hat to cover his moderate length golden hair. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: Aldous is depressed about a lot of things. He tends to be a nihilist. He is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: Aldous was born in the north. At a young age he loved to build and create. His mother was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: He loathes his own lifestyle; and he feels kind of lost in life

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Depressed, Lazy. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 800 gp. Carved bone or ivory statuette (90 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (1000 gp). 1 Minor magic item.