Description: With green face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he wears white leather gloves, a white jacket, and tight pants. With a patchy blonde beard and wild blonde hair. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk he knows how to make people feel guilty. Flattery will make him almost putty in your hands.

History: His necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His first spouse was a Painter, they had one daughter, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Painter they were divorced and he won custody of their daughter. He worked as a Herbalist, and he later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Depressed, Selfish. Bonds: Family, Criminal record. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 800 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally she sports a brown coat. Her auburn hair is cut short. Her eyes are blue and catlike.

Personality: She is irascible and easily irritated. She is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: She was born into a rich family. She was an apprentice working in her mother's forge. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: Expand her business; and obtaining odd cultural gnomish artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 1000 gp. Solid gold idol (1000 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (170 gp). A detailed rose, with petals and thorns, constructed of silver and electrum (10 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (6000 gp). Jeweled anklet (1000 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (170 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (170 gp).

Description: An older man who typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep pastel leather and dull black iron scale mail, he is not a threatening figure. He wears his white fur down. His eyes are a pleasant amber.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: The child of northern immigrants he idolized his father. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He has worked as a Bookbinder like his father before him.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Disciplined, Logical. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 900 pp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (800 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). Jeweled gold crown (6000 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1500 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (80 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (800 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1500 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1200 gp). Jeweled gold crown (6000 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she wears dull red sweaters, loose green pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath her sweater she keeps a concealed sai, just in case. Her feathered hat is riddled with cuts and holes. Her eyes are violet and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She is a woman who does what she needs to. She will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. When she's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, she's doing poetry.

History: She was born several months after her mother was called into army service. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her mother gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her mother, who blamed her for driving them apart. Being a Shepherd kept her interest for a while, but then she became depressed and bored. So she turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: Seeks redemption; and she is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Criminal record, Military. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 17000 cp.

Description: She wears a yellow deerstalker hat and yellow clothes. She carries with her a set of swords, each one with a amethyst on the hilt. She only wears one on her belt and the other on her back. She has golden hair. Her gray eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from her. She is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Half-Elf in existence. She uses her nature as a weapon; she likes to lead opponents to think her in distress.

History: She was born in the east, but her parents moved at a very young age to the west. Ahinar was a troubled youth. She spent her days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent her evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Ahinar decided she wanted neither the life of her mother nor that of the evil petty criminals she associated with. During her early adolescence, she took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. She was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of freemasons.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Justice. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Immigrant, Criminal record, Religious. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 30 pp.