Description: He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized white coat. He carries a battered scimitar and tarnished quarterstaff as well. He wears a colorful flower in his silver hair. His amber eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He seems absolutely devoid of it. He stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. He also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: Anselm was born with his father's beautiful face. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: He seems to be bored by most things; and to end his boredom

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Mundane, Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 600 gp. Obsidian (12 gp). Onyx (70 gp). Malachite (12 gp).

Description: She wears silk and lounges about seductively. She carries with her a set of shields on her belt, each one with a topaz on the hilt. She has shaved her head bald. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep hazel.

Personality: Juliana is a sociable creature first and foremost. She loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. She can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. She is fiercely devoted to her mother, and views her mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-sister.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. 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. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her sons to still be retired.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and to reunite with her absent mother

Ideals: Fighting, Extrovert. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Rich. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 600 gp. Sard (50 gp). Banded agate (11 gp).

Description: She wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle, and she perpetually has her flail ready. Her head has been shaved. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines gray.

Personality: While she acts the brute, she is far gentler than she would appear. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Hugolina was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. Her mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her mother was legitimate. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and her religion dominates her actions

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 2000 sp. Tourmaline (150 gp). Amber (150 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, he wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a tan coat. His tied-back hair is silver. His fierce violet eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the north. He takes great pride in his work and is very well organized. His planner is full of calendar events.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. Like his father and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Mercenary. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Job, Military. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 400 gp.