Description: This younger middle-aged man wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his ceremonial dagger with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt, and a wedding ring on his right hand. He wears a top hat to hide his balding. His copper eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He pushes his goals aggressively. He is also a coward if confronted.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. In his 18th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. Some 8 years later his spouse died after the birth of his daughter. Heartbroken, Emerald never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his daughter whom he trained as his mother had trained him before.

Motivation: He seems to be bored by most things.

Flaws: Sensitive, Insane, Fearful, Mundane. Bonds: In love. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 1600 gp. Amethyst (80 gp).

Description: This man prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. He carries his fan with him everywhere and carries himself as the perfect gentleman. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized jet on his right hand. He keeps his blue crest in a pixie cut. He has several tiny jet earrings on each ear.

Personality: He has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Sage who has hired him part-time. He takes great joy in being the best Sage in town.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Bonds: Rich, Has a crush, Job, Military, Attractive. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 600 gp. Chrysoprase (70 gp).

Description: She stands about 4'9" and dresses like a well dressed Assassin does. Her left leg appears badly burned and disfigured. Her golden hair is long and unkept. Her ears are large.

Personality: A deeply religious woman she believes everything happens for a reason. She is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Assassin. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Religious. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: A stocky lighter skinned woman, she very much looks the part of a Apothecary. Her long red hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: Stoic and calm, she prefers to meditate than take action. Around other people she will do her best to conceal her emotions and appear jolly.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Shy, Ugly. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 2000 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man prefers to wear tan clothing when he does not wear armor. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized amethyst on his right hand. He is bald on top and has large chestnut tufts of hair around his ears. His eyes are a pleasant brown.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. Erky is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his sisters into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: Erky was born the youngest of three triplets. He was taken from his home at a very young age. After a long history of fighting, Erky and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and marry his sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Family, Slave. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Minor magic item.