Description: He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His skin is fair and his fingers are delicate and long. His hair is cut close to his head. He has several tiny sapphire earrings on each ear.

Personality: He hates dire rats. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Mason business.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to his current location. 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: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it; and he seems to be bored by most things

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Rich, Enemies, Immigrant. Occupation: Mason

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. Her silver hair is well kept. She has green eyes and a white hat with a red feather.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. She is harsh and unforgiving.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Juliana was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. Her mother was a soldier and died while she was still young. Juliana was left her mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. She was granted arcane powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Mentor, Military. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 4000 sp.

Description: He is an average looking eastern male in his early mid-life. He wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). He keeps his white hair in a flapper bob. His eyes are likewise blue. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He has schizophrenia that causes him to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. The war was a terrible time for him, and Gilbert does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. Cursed with a spirit at a very young age, Gilbert has worked very hard to control his curse. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He loathes his own lifestyle; and he is greedy

Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Depressed. Bonds: Military, Rich. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 70 pp. Bloodstone (30 gp). Red garnet (60 gp).

Description: She is in excellent shape and is wearing a long, tan, dusty cloak. Her long brown hair reaches down to her waist. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She is a Scribe first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. 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 was born in the west. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She's also a talented Bowyer, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: To be a Bowyer again.

Ideals: Athletic. Bonds: Job, Family, Immigrant, Attractive. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 100 gp. Fire opal (500 gp). Deep blue spinel (400 gp).