Description: He wears a tight fitting tan shirt and pants. He is portly but not overly obese. His long red hair reaches down to his waist. His eyes are hazel and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He spends most of his days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There he gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the east. As a young adult he joined a group advocating for an improvement in Gnomish conditions. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Performer for hire.

Motivation: Meet up once more with his childhood friend.

Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Poor. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: He wears bulky white painted plate armor. He carries with him a set of ceremonial daggers on his belt, each one with a opal on the hilt. He wears his black hair up. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. He has a habit of throwing himself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform 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 is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Shy, Impulsive. Bonds: Rich, Slave. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 3000 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (500 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (4000 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (140 gp). An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (20 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (500 gp). A delicate brass dragon egg (20 gp). Silver ewer (20 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1900 gp). Solid gold idol (200 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1900 gp).

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears a tight fitting white shirt and pants. His blonde hair has been sun bleached extensively. He has gleaming, smiling blue eyes.

Personality: He trusts no one. He is not readily capable for forgiveness and his ire never leaves him. He has a cruel streak; something he gained from his previous mentor. He harbors resentment against his former mentor.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when brigands swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Soapmaker hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. After a long history of fighting, Barfa and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by brigands, and he desires to right it.

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Mentor, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 1 Darkwood Shield.

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She is well dressed, but even with her fine clothing she looks run-down. She keeps her long brown hair kept up in a rat tail. She is baby faced.

Personality: She will rave to anyone who will listen. She refers to her adoptive mother for almost all things she is unsure about, which are numerous. She is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: Dara lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. She was an adventurer many years ago and she formed a blood bond with her Half-Elven companion (her 'brother'). She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally.

Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Family, Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 300 gp.