Description: With violet face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he wears a red shirt, with a grey mid length shorts with grey tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. His tied-back hair is auburn. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. He is fiercely devoted to his father, and views his father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-brother.

History: He was born in a small desert village. Being born in the east, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the east for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way north. He has never given up on his poetry dream.

Motivation: Marry his brother to traveling adventurers; and nothing but the best is good enough for him

Ideals: Artistic, Impeccable. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Family, Nature. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 100 gp. Chrysoberyl (130 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears just a grey suit. She has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to her abundance of muscles. Her auburn hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. Her blue eyes peer out from beneath her broad grey hat.

Personality: She has schizophrenia that causes her to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. She feeds upon the attention of others.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her father. Cursed with unlife at a very young age, Emmeline has worked very hard to control her curse. She has worked as a Mason like her father before her.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 30 gp.

Description: This late middle aged man wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with small hat and is in decent physical shape. His red crest is singed and shortened. His red unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He speaks before he thinks and is too direct. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He was granted psionic powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Impulsive, Insomniac. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 50 gp.

Description: An older woman who is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time, she is not a threatening figure. Her crest is greying and her face has many wrinkles. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. She has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: She was born in a small island village. Over the years she perfected her riding and shooting skills. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: She is greedy; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Persistence, Justice. Bonds: Nature, Job, Rich. Occupation: Adventurer

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

Possessions: Red spinel (130 gp). Obsidian (9 gp). Brown-green garnet (130 gp).

Description: His right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He wears long strands of topaz and short grey dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. His black hair and beard is wavy and long. His ears are large.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: He was born in the north. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Ruler.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Ruler responsibilities is difficult; and he has money and likes to spend it

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Job, Religious, Immigrant. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 1500 sp.