Description: A moderately attractive woman, she wears a worn and beaten armor. Her hair is short and auburn. Her gray eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: Joan wants to be seen as a stoic, levelheaded, noble Paladin, so she tries to act the part. She does a good job, for the most part... The war was a terrible time for her, and Joan does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: A powerful necromancer made her what she is. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Mentor. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is of a modest build and height, but he carries himself more imposing than he is. He wears a worn and beaten armor. He sports a long brown beard, and similarly colored long hair. He has a dull look in his amber eyes.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: Gifted from a young age, Gerald studied abroad. Through the years after Gerald was born, his father became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the east. Gerald's father didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He guards a vault combo very seriously as well as the key needed to open it.

Motivation: To protect his home; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Gifted, Professionalism. Flaws: Antagonistic, Secretive. Bonds: Guardian. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 800 gp. Hematite (13 gp). Black opal (1000 gp). Eye agate (13 gp).

Description: He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His silver hair is unkempt and raggedy. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: He was born in the west. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 20000 cp. Amethyst (110 gp).

Description: She dresses in blue turtlenecks beneath a brown coat with violet slacks. Her skin is fair and her fingers are delicate and long. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. She has gleaming, smiling amber eyes.

Personality: She swings through moods quickly. One moment she is cool and collected, the next she is carried away by passions. The occasional robbery is her preferred attention getting crime, but she mainly uses her means for meeting her own perverse desires.

History: When she was but 4 years old her parents immigrated from the west. While she appears to be a normal Human, she's... not quite right. Perhaps she's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that she plain doesn't fit in. Being a Performer 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: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions; and she feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help

Ideals: Passionate. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Criminal record, Immigrant, Religious. Occupation: Performer

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 100 gp.