Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he likes to wear black tank tops with green pants. He wears a feathered hat to hide his balding. He has hazel eyes.

Personality: He is envious of other's things. He hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that he so desires. He is accommodating to his spouse and as such limits his hospitality. He is brave and levelheaded in the face of danger and has proven himself a capable leader.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: He feels kind of lost in life; and money/treasure

Flaws: Greedy, Disease, Depressed. Bonds: In love, Rich. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 400 sp. Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). 1 Darkwood Shield.

Description: He is a husky man, who wears silk and lounges about seductively. His chestnut hair is smooth and relatively long. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the north. 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: His necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His necromantic abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north; and his religion dominates his actions

Ideals: Pacifist, Entrepeneur, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 7000 cp. 1 Chain shirt.

Description: He wears a pastel collared shirt and green pants. He accessorizes with a brown scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. His fur is greying and his face has many wrinkles. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Brewer arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and his religion dominates his actions

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Religious. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 90 gp. Brown-green garnet (160 gp).

Description: A woman of a pale complexion, she is wearing a long, yellow cloak. Her auburn hair is singed and shortened. Her eyes are likewise violet. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She is a very philanthropic person; she spends her free time working at various soup kitchens. She invented a lineage for herself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. Her mother took her hunting and taught her how to get in the mind of other creatures. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 11 years.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Layabout responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Nature, Job. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 5000 cp.