Description: His skin is bronze and flawless. He wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. He is an epitome of beauty. With a patchy black beard and wild black hair. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep gray.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. He has a cruel streak; something he gained from his previous mentor. He harbors resentment against his former mentor.

History: A powerful necromancer made him what he is. Through the years after Balimaar was born, his mother became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the north. Balimaar's mother didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Mentor. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 110 gp. Freshwater pearl (14 gp).

Description: With black face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she wears a brown costume with the symbols of the four houses of cards on her torso. Her auburn hair is wavy and long. Her ears are large.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. She claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day she will do what she thinks is right.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her father always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her father gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her father, who blamed her for driving them apart. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Disciplined, Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 600 sp. Azurite (9 gp).

Description: This man is dressed in a clean tan cloak covering his clean studded leather, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His golden hair is cut short. His eyes are blue.

Personality: He has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Fortune-teller who has hired him part-time. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Traki is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: He was born into a rich family. In his youth he was part of a gang. He got caught, but did not rat out his comrades and served his time in prison. 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: A rival would like him out of the picture; and he wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Greedy. Bonds: Has a crush, Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 60 gp.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She is well dressed, but even with her fine clothing she looks run-down. She wears a colorful flower in her bronze crest. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She likes to make people angry or surprised. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage daughter.

History: A child with a great deal of painting talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. She has had some formal painting training, and achieved minor success. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Miner they were divorced and she won custody of their daughter. She worked as a Merchant, and she later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Insane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 5000 cp. Cloth of gold vestments (150 gp).