Description: She is scrawny and has patchy red stubble. She tends to wear a brown poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt. She has a hunchback. She keeps her red hair in a pixie cut. Her gray eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. She is very protective of her business, her home, and her spouse. She is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Ahlyssa was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. She always admired arcane-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. Being a Mercenary kept her interest for a while, but then she became depressed and bored. So she turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: Seeks redemption; and she will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Terse. Bonds: Criminal record, Mentor. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 2000 sp.

Description: This southern man wears black painted combat armor at almost all times. His clothes are grease stained in places. He wears a small hat to hide his balding. He is baby faced.

Personality: He hates Humans with a passion. As such he is filled with self loathing. He also hits on women, regardless of circumstances.

History: Born to a Bather, his father struggled to pay the bills. As a young adult he joined a group advocating for an improvement in Human conditions. He has gone from town to town working and never settling down anywhere, but has fallen for a local Bather. He hasn't told them the truth, but wants to settle down with them.

Motivation: Human compassion; and wants his loneliness to end

Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Has a crush. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 20 pp. Chalcedony (80 gp).

Description: He is an average looking southern male in his early mid-life. He wears silk and lounges about seductively. He keeps his chestnut hair in a pixie cut. His amber eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks his mind. He spends most of his days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There he gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: Trained by his mother for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. His mother was a soldier and died while he was still young. Everard was left his mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. He now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Flaws: Addict, Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Military. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: Standing 4'10", this woman is dressed in a clean black cloak covering her clean studded leather. She wears a deerstalker hat to cover her moderate length white hair. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. She is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when dire rats swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. Her parents were killed by dire rats in a raid when she was still a young child. The dire rats captured her, and made her a slave and general play-thing. She was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to her deformed appearance. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by dire rats. Melissa was horrified and prayed that her mother was alright. However, she heard that her mother had died fighting off the dire rats.

Motivation: She is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs; and revenge

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Sensitive. Bonds: Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 600 gp.