Angel Gaze

Angel Gaze is a noble from Canterlot. Born into money, she has found per purpose in life with the Colonial Benevolent Society, an organization dedicated to exposing and rectifying abusive colonial practices. (While strongly against exploitative practices (e.g. forced labor), it should be noted that many members of the CBS still take a rather paternalistic view of indigenous cultures.) Some of the older members of the organization look down on Angel Gaze's youth, but she is far more committed to the cause than many of the rich merchants and noble seeking to soothe her conscience by participation in the CBS.

Angel has been to the jungle several times before, and is a hardy traveler. She does not shirk at danger, but perhaps neither does she fully appreciate her own mortality. She is a natural diplomat, but may come across as naive at times. She is not very good at physical fighting, but has a decent grasp of pegasus magic. She speaks only Equestrian, and that with an upper-crust accent.

Muddy Boots

Muddy Boots' family came from Equestria as colonists. Besides Equestrian, she has a fair command of the Zebra-Pony trade pidgin. She was born on a farmstead in the colonies, and has made herself comfortable in the jungle as well. She is proficient in fieldcraft and survival skills, and in navigation. She can be a bit quarrelsome and is always ready for a dust-up, but is not a professional soldier.

Grappler

Grappler is a mercenary. A rough mare from a rough part of Trottingham, she was a juvenile delinquent. A magistrate sent her to the colonies instead of prison. she excels in the use of melee weapons and unarmed combat. She is proficient with nonlethal methods, having worked as a plantation overseer for a few years before moving into what she considered a better line of work. Grappler is an exceptionally strong flyer, but is hopeless at pegasus magic, and is mostly illiterate. She speaks a little Zebra.

Vizuri

A half-zebra half-pegasus pony, Vizuri is a quick thinker. She's not the strongest flyer, or particularly magical, but she has managed to accumulate a variety of useful skills. A polyglot, she speaks Equestrian, Ponylander, Zebra and a few of the local indigenous languages proficiently, and is literate in the first three as well. In Port Hoofcourt, she was until recently employed as a translator. Before she moved to Port Hoofcourt, she had been an outcast and a prostitute in another town. She managed to learn to read and write, and scrimped together enough money to relocate, hoping to leave that life behind her. Unfortunately, she recently lost her job when a rival exposed her past to the office employing her.

Pop Gunner

A veteran of the Boar Wars in the South, Lieutenant Gunner served under the famous major general Pommelroy. After the war, he simply couldn't bear to return to the stifling formality of Equestrian society and his high society extended family - or abandon his native wife. He decided to stay in the colonies and take up the plow. Unfortunately, conflict followed him, and a renegade tribe of Boars set fire to his farm out of revenge. His family perished in the attack despite his efforts to save them. Pop couldn't bear to try and rebuild; there was nothing left for him there. He sold his land and became a soldier of fortune.

Pop is in reasonably good shape despite his age and committed relationship to his tobacco pipe. His unicorn magic is keen, and he remains proficient in magical artillery spells and other ranged magical attacks. He speaks Equestrian and Zebra fluently.

Cuddleford

Cuddleford is an independent riverboat skipper and a very skilled pilot. She knows the brownwater of the region like the back of her distal foreleg, and has been upriver many times to service the trading posts and stations inland - though never as far as the Headwaters. She's well-acquainted with riparian lore and dangers. She speaks Equestrian and a few words of the indigenous languages commonly spoken upriver, mostly friendly greetings, threats, and profanity. Her unicorn magic isn't the strongest, but she is decent with telekinesis, finding it indispensable in operating her vessel without a large crew. Her father was a country doctor, and though she didn't especially take to it, she remembers a few things he taught her.

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