Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He is renowned for his bright blue suits and hats. He wears his chestnut hair down. His blue eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: While he is on the job, he is grim and serious. He understands how dangerous the world is and the need to stay safe. His brief stint in the army gave him the idea he was invincible and that he is the toughest man alive.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. 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 is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable; and retire the richest man in the east

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Criminal record, Military. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 600 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with deerstalker hat. Her crest is brass and curly. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. She enjoys reading and quiet.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and she is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out

Ideals: Joker, Logical, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Poor, Slave. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 3000 gp. Obsidian (16 gp). Malachite (16 gp). Freshwater pearl (16 gp). Emerald (1600 gp). Black star sapphire (1600 gp).

Description: This slender man stands about 6'2". He wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. He wears his golden hair up. His violet eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He goes out his way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one he won't accept into his heart. He plays an instrument quite well.

History: His father raised him in a mountain cabin. He has had some formal poetry training, and achieved minor success. Some 8 years later his spouse died after the birth of his son. Heartbroken, Balimaar never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his son whom he trained as his mother had trained him before.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it; and someone believes him a fraud

Ideals: Optimist, Artistic. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Nature, In love, Enemies. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 200 pp. A miniature (3 inch) silver gauntlet, trimmed in mother-of-pearl (50 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1900 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (100 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1800 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. His white hair is braided into rings. He has a dull look in his white eyes.

Personality: He is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks his mind. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: He got into the Knight business at a young age. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He struck the Knight job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Job, Religious, Adventurer. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 1100 gp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (300 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1700 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (2000 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp).