Radu Xander is a tough-looking man in his fourties. His eyes are dark and brooding, his skin is dark and he looks native to the south. His body is covered in subtle tattoos. His voice is deep and his fire tongue is cultured and educated, despite the fact that he looks like a common mercenary, or muscle for hire. There's something raw and savage in his restrained demeanor; as if fearless violence lurks just below the surface.

Appearance 4, Strength 3, Stamina 3, Contacts 3 (Undercity), Intimate Training Recollection (Southern Tribal Languages)

Winter Phrase dresses as is traditional for a Delzhan woman, showing off her beauty. She is employed in the city archives and library, so despite her clothing her skin is pale and untanned. She has a bookish innocence about her, a kind of detachment that suggests that she thinks you are as real as any other character she might have read about. She has few friends and keeps to herself most of the time. She is well-spoken and intelligent with prim manners, and a distinct void where a sense of humor should be.

Strength 2, Stamina 2, Appearance 3, Backing Cult of the Illuminated 1, Intimate Training Recollection: Investigation

Speaks with Mist is clad in the robes of a Sijanese mortician. She has little use for people, outside of her clients, but listens with a professional detachment when she is addressed. Many people know that they can come to her small shop and have their medical emergencies treated for free, if they don't mind the macabre atmosphere and a less than admirable bedside manner. Her pale skin is usually hidden from the bright sun, defying the local custom of showing off the female form. She doesn't seem to care what other people think of her odd and sometimes antisocial behavior. The sign outside her door simply reads: Arrangements.

Strength 2, Stamina 2, Appearance 2, Intimate Training Recollection: Medicine

Rising Swell wears her naval jacket open to display her perfectly bronzed skin. She clanks with weapons, buckles, and jewelry when she swaggers onto the streets of Chiaroscuro from her ship, the Summer Iceberg. Like her crew, she drinks like a fish and fights like a lion. Her language is as course as her hands are. She delights in making fools of men by flirting outrageously with them. What she lacks in manners, though she makes up for in wild good looks and sultry style.

Strength 3, Stamina 2, Appearance 4, Followers 2, Intimate Training Recollection: Sail

Resplendent Garden is a young Immaculate who wears the robes of a first coil monk from the temple tradition. She gravitates to the green spaces in the city and the surrounding countryside and is often seen working along side slaves and farmers in the fields that surround the city. Her nature is kind and nurturing, but she is willing to fight to defend order and correctness. Her deference for the Terrestrial Exalted is absolute and she refuses even to talk to to a known Celestial.

(recently demoted from 2nd coil)

Strength 3, Stamina 3, Appearance 2, Backing- Immaculate Order 1, Intimate Training Recollection: Old Realm

Perfect Chance has the look of a northerner, although she speaks Flame Tongue without an accent. Her clothes are common, worn and as dirty as her skin. She looks disreputable, and indeed law enforcement seems to give her special attention when she's around. Her movements are quick and she sometimes seems to disappear altogether. The lower half of her face is tattooed, making her own skin color seem like a mask. She has the easy false-friendliness of someone selling stolen goods.

Strength 2, Stamina 2, Appearance 2, Contacts- Black Market 2, Intimate Training Recollection: Dodge.
Melody of Heaven is encased in the robes of a Varangian astrologer. She's in her mid thirties, and the first signs of gray intermingle with the small wards and luck charms woven into her hair. Shadowy floral tattoos cover her face and body like a china plate. Her full lips are always ready to pronounce a dramatic fate or an inauspicious sign. Her council is sometimes sought by important men and women, but she makes her daily bread selling fortunes on the street. She carries a weighty velvet sack that clanks with a ceramic quality when she moves.

Strength 2, Stamina 2, Appearance 2, Contacts- Politicians 2, Intimate Training Recollection: Occult

Judgment Soon is a stunning woman in her fifties. She wears the cape and caries the staff that remind everyone with eyes that she is the proud mother of a Minor Khan of the desert Delzhan. When she is in town, she walks down the middle of the street and less important people scurry out of her way. She is a master of etiquette and knows to whom she must show respect, herself. The needs of her people come first from her lips and she has little time for the soft luxuries of the city.


Strength 2, Stamina 3, Appearance 4, Backing- Desert Delzhan 3, Intimate Training Recollection: War

Contora Ru would be more beautiful if she smiled once in a while. She almost always wears the uniform of a city guard, and even when she doesn't her posture and demeanor suggest that in her heart she is still wearing it. Her voice is low and husky, but she can bark when she needs to exert authority. Her eyes are calculating, and she is quick to restore order and slow to judge. Although her primary duty is to patrol the city streets, she is sometimes called upon to be an honor guard on ceremonial occasions.

Strength 3, Stamina 3, Appearance 2, Backing- City Guard 2, Intimate Training Recollection: Melee

Bitter Silence is a beautiful courtier in her early twenties. She wears cutting edge fashions and her hair is always just so. She's the kind of person who knows that she's beautiful and figures that she can get what she wants from men and women by using her looks. She has a buoyant spirit and a wicked sense of humor that make her a big hit at parties. She's also learned to listen in a way that makes her an authority on rumors and scandals.


Strength 2, Stamina 2, Appearance 4, Resources 4, Contacts Aristocracy 2, Intimate Training Recollection: Craft Water.
Articulate Pen is an ink merchant in her 50s. She carries herself with dignity and dresses in the latest fashions. Her jewelry is tasteful but expensive, making up for (in her mind) her lack of beauty. She often smokes a delicate porcelain pipe and has a wracking, chronic cough. She scrupulously pays her bribes on time.

Strength 2, Stamina 2, Appearance 2, Resources 3, Intimate Training Recollection: Bureaucracy