Description: A plain young-adult woman, she prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for her hunting needs. Her hair, while still mostly silver, has prominent grey streaks. Her eyes are blue and catlike.

Personality: She runs her personal life as if detached from it. She organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits she will get from it. She is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Vicky grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Vicky. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the north; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Logical. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 500 gp. Rich purple corundum (600 gp). Malachite (4 gp). Banded agate (4 gp). Jasper (50 gp).

Description: 6'0" and muscular, this eastern man likes to wear brown tank tops with red pants. He keeps his long chestnut hair kept up in a rat tail. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends he is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy himself. He is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories he has discovered

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Chad grew up listening to his father's many stories. Chad abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends.

Ideals: Athletic, Joker, Logical. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 70 pp. Black opal (900 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (8 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is a mite stocky and wears a tattered pair of loose black pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. Her silver hair has been sun bleached extensively. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. She works hard and plays hard.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her father. 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 south. She has been saving her money to try and buy her sister's freedom.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister; and an old rival family wants her found

Ideals: Opinionated, Fighting. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Poor, Family. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 700 gp.

Description: A 5'7" southern man, he wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. He has a very tight haircut. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He goes out his way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one he won't accept into his heart. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. He was taken from his home at a very young age. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and he is greedy

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Insane, Forgetful. Bonds: Rich, Slave. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 200 gp.