Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. He keeps his black hair in a pixie cut. He has gleaming, smiling white eyes.

Personality: Ekemon hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his singing career. Ekemon is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his brothers into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: The child of eastern immigrants he idolized his father. Like his father and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Sage. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Marry his brother to traveling adventurers.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Family, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 300 sp.

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She wears just a brown suit. Her blonde hair is singed and shortened. Her fierce amber eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She is irritable and easily angered. She is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use her stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. She is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. Her father was a soldier and died while she was still young. Melissa was left her father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and she is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Insane. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 130 gp. Iolite (20 gp).

Description: She is a small woman, but exceptionally fit. She wears blue leather gloves, a blue jacket, and tight pants. Her hair is cut close to her head. Her gray eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, she has a hard time making friends. She is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: Her psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. She always admired psionic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted, Logical. Flaws: Addict, Antagonistic. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He is dressed in earthy colors with a yellow and white handkerchief worn on his right side. His hair is always cut to a buzz. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are amber.

Personality: He is a jovial happy person, but he is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. He is underhanded and not above using his wealth and body to get others to do his bidding.

History: He was born in a small forest village. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He bought a shortspear and has really upped his game hunting, due to his understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved.

Ideals: Optimist, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 9000 cp.

Description: A moderately attractive woman, she wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. Her red hair, when down, is lengthy. She has brown eyes and a black hat with a white feather.

Personality: She is extraordinarily eccentric. She is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. Since then, she has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Shoemaker responsibilities is difficult; and retire the richest woman in the east

Ideals: Joker, Entrepeneur, Optimist. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 400 sp. Amethyst (130 gp). White pearl (130 gp). Chrysoprase (80 gp).