Description: A pudgy man standing about 3'4" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep tan leather and dull red iron scale mail. His chestnut hair is smooth and relatively long. His violet eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. He takes great joy in being the best Crown-heir in town.

History: Burgell was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He has had some formal poetry training, and achieved minor success. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Crown-heir responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 25000 cp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She tends to wear a black poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt. She is portly but not overly obese. She sports chestnut long hair. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady violet eyes.

Personality: She likes to fabricate stories about her past exploits and how crazy she is, but in actuality she is rather bland. She receives visions of the future at random moments

History: She was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for her. It may also be what makes her so good at details. Her psionic abilities were realized during a raid on her village. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane, Disease, Insomniac. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 230 gp. Obsidian (13 gp). Amethyst (90 gp).

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He likes to wear white tank tops with black pants. His chestnut hair is braided into rings. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He is someone who is used to having a large amount of sex appeal. He also lacks a concept of privacy and shares just about everything. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of drow once and for all.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. 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 hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: To end his boredom.

Flaws: Insomniac, Mundane. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 1000 sp. 1 Masterwork studded leather. 1 Chain shirt. 1 Darkwood Shield.

Description: This woman stands a little under 5'6" and is a bit bulky. She is very muscular particularly in the legs. She wears a brown costume with the symbols of luck on her torso. Her auburn hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a deerstalker hat. Her green eyes peer out from beneath her deerstalker brown hat.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. She is cautious and jumpy. She reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: Mary lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Being born in the east, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the east for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way south. She was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of freemasons.

Motivation: She wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and doesn't want to be a spice merchant and was forced into it by her family

Flaws: Addict, Fearful, Secretive, Greedy. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 6000 cp.

Description: He has a missing right leg. He wears grey painted combat armor at almost all times. He has moderate length chestnut hair. His amber eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He considers himself the protector of his home. He feels this is his duty and calling. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his father.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Mason hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: To protect his home; and retire the richest man in the east

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Bonds: Guardian, Poor. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 800 sp.