Yukino is Infiltrating as a Bando refugee turned pirate. She first ended up on the Bando Peninsula after running away from home to avoid an arranged marriage and falling in with a Bad Crowd (definitions of "bad" vary based on who you ask). She initially landed in Nakamiyo, where she briefly joined the Mibugumi before realizing that really wasn't for her; she did pick up a little wind elementalism on the side, though, so it wasn't a total loss. She then moved on to Koroshima and spent some time there, only to find that wasn't a good fit either - although she did turn out to have an affinity for guns and throwing weapons, so it wasn't all bad. After a number of misadventures, she ended up on the Pulao, and Crownbreaker Isle after that, where it turned out that a pirate's life was for her, and she's a lot happier for it. Originally named Kyouko, she lopped off a syllable and now goes by Kyou.
Cassandra is Investigating, and probably Finvestigating as well. As the last Jaunt's official Thalassian spy, she is fully expecting there to be another Thalassian spy for this Jaunt, and she is hoping like hell that it isn't her late overlay's younger sister, whom the Empress had threatened to have turned into a Stricken and forced into her service if Alexandra failed her mission (this was actually part of Calypso/Alexandra's backstory during the last Jaunt, although Alexandra herself never told anyone, because why bother). I haven't decided yet how much resemblance she bears to her former overlay, although if she's Finvestigating, she will bear a prominent scar down the front of her body; if any of Alexandra's killers are part of the group, that might get their attention.
(Quick summary/review for anyone whose overlay might have reason to know: Alexandra was a member of the Pulao school, who unbeknownst to them had been pressed into service by the Empress as her spy and thrall and tasked her to work with the Deepsinger, the half-undead Stricken whale mentioned in the Jaunt history. She was caught midway through the Jaunt, confessed everything, told the leaders of the respective schools what she knew, and was then spirited away from confinement and killed by an angry mob while her ultimate fate was still being decided. She had the ability to shift her mermaid form, and used that to pass herself off as a Beluga mermaid named Calypso; upon her death, she reverted to her true mermaid form - a False Killer Whale. As mentioned, her sister was the Empress's hostage, used to ensure Alexandra's compliance.)
Raidou will be Infiltrating as Jung Ha-neul (or simply Haneul, to anyone from the Bando Peninsula), a summoner who is serving with the Xunhuo Guwei as a very unwilling conscript.
Originally from En Zhenming, his family once held a decent amount of power and influence, although those days were long past by the time he was born. His parents were somewhat inadvisably critical of the Truenamed Emperor, and were unsurprisingly disappeared at some point, leaving him to be raised by his much more loyal (and strict) grandparents. Unfortunately for them, their efforts to mold him into a loyal citizen of the Empire were slightly undermined by certain of the ancestral ghosts who also resided on the premises of their very old estate, who had much fewer qualms about voicing their opinions of the Emperor, since it wasn't as if he could kill them again. They did at least teach him to be more circumspect about what he said and where, but he still ended up exiled to the Bando anyway; still, it beats some of the alternatives. Needless to say, he is deeply displeased to find himself conscripted into serving the Empire in any capacity, much less this one. He's been brought in specifically for his summoning abilities; you never know when you might need someone to channel an actual sailor or gunner, or to interrogate the odd dead person here and there. (Honestly, he'd probably rather talk to the dead people.)
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Cassandra is Investigating, and probably Finvestigating as well. As the last Jaunt's official Thalassian spy, she is fully expecting there to be another Thalassian spy for this Jaunt, and she is hoping like hell that it isn't her late overlay's younger sister, whom the Empress had threatened to have turned into a Stricken and forced into her service if Alexandra failed her mission (this was actually part of Calypso/Alexandra's backstory during the last Jaunt, although Alexandra herself never told anyone, because why bother). I haven't decided yet how much resemblance she bears to her former overlay, although if she's Finvestigating, she will bear a prominent scar down the front of her body; if any of Alexandra's killers are part of the group, that might get their attention.
(Quick summary/review for anyone whose overlay might have reason to know: Alexandra was a member of the Pulao school, who unbeknownst to them had been pressed into service by the Empress as her spy and thrall and tasked her to work with the Deepsinger, the half-undead Stricken whale mentioned in the Jaunt history. She was caught midway through the Jaunt, confessed everything, told the leaders of the respective schools what she knew, and was then spirited away from confinement and killed by an angry mob while her ultimate fate was still being decided. She had the ability to shift her mermaid form, and used that to pass herself off as a Beluga mermaid named Calypso; upon her death, she reverted to her true mermaid form - a False Killer Whale. As mentioned, her sister was the Empress's hostage, used to ensure Alexandra's compliance.)
Raidou will be Infiltrating as Jung Ha-neul (or simply Haneul, to anyone from the Bando Peninsula), a summoner who is serving with the Xunhuo Guwei as a very unwilling conscript.
Originally from En Zhenming, his family once held a decent amount of power and influence, although those days were long past by the time he was born. His parents were somewhat inadvisably critical of the Truenamed Emperor, and were unsurprisingly disappeared at some point, leaving him to be raised by his much more loyal (and strict) grandparents. Unfortunately for them, their efforts to mold him into a loyal citizen of the Empire were slightly undermined by certain of the ancestral ghosts who also resided on the premises of their very old estate, who had much fewer qualms about voicing their opinions of the Emperor, since it wasn't as if he could kill them again. They did at least teach him to be more circumspect about what he said and where, but he still ended up exiled to the Bando anyway; still, it beats some of the alternatives. Needless to say, he is deeply displeased to find himself conscripted into serving the Empire in any capacity, much less this one. He's been brought in specifically for his summoning abilities; you never know when you might need someone to channel an actual sailor or gunner, or to interrogate the odd dead person here and there. (Honestly, he'd probably rather talk to the dead people.)