Description: He likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. His hair is brown and curly. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He does not care much for physical appearances, nor does he care much for other people. He does however care about what he wants and getting it. He does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for him. He lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered writing. 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 he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Slave. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 400 gp. Red-brown spinel (140 gp). Rhodochrosite (7 gp). Alexandrite (600 gp). Amethyst (140 gp).

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with black lining and desert motifs. Her black hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a top hat. Her eyes are gray and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She is cool and collected. She likes to make quips and puns whenever she does anything. She also makes a point to compliment her superiors and flatter them. She invented a lineage for herself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. Ida abandoned her home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. She survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. She did whatever it took for her to survive. She spent several years traveling with her friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: Meet up once more with her childhood friend; and a rival would like her out of the picture

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 5000 sp. Emerald (900 gp).

Description: He is a pot bellied eastern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his morningstar with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. He keeps his auburn hair in a pixie cut. His fierce blue eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: The child of a Cook, who enjoyed hunting, Miles was taken on many hunting expeditions. When he was little, his rather wealthy family often ventured across the forest to a summer home near a large cave. He would wander through that large cave and adventure through it for days. One day while adventuring a terrible storm took place and he was stranded inside. His family spent the next few days looking for him, and could only assume he was dead when it came time to leave. The family never returned to the forest due to the painful memories there. Miles took refuge in the large cave and found the beat up morningstar and armor he uses now. 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 work out more often.

Ideals: Athletic, Joker, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Rich, Nature. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: She has the majority of her body covered in plate. She is portly but not overly obese. She wears a deerstalker hat to hide her balding. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her hazel eyes.

Personality: She is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her singing with anyone who is interested.

History: Avelina was born the youngest of three triplets. Being born in the west, 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 west 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 east. By chance she met her brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: Chalcedony (40 gp).