Description: He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized black coat. He has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. His hair is short and auburn. His eyes are violet and catlike.

Personality: He is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as he rather likes the sound of his voice. His demeanor is somewhat feminine. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: A child with a great deal of painting talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a daughter. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and a rival would like him out of the picture

Ideals: Optimist, Artistic. Bonds: Criminal record, In love. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 600 gp. Violet garnet (1600 gp). Bloodstone (20 gp). Tourmaline (50 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He stands about 4'3" and wears a brown tunic with white highlights, and long green pants that bunch up around his shoes. His left leg appears badly burned and disfigured. He has styled his blonde hair well, parting it to the left. His brown eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. He plays an instrument quite well.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered poetry. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends; and he desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Philantrophist, Artistic, Optimist. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 3000 sp. Malachite (9 gp). Citrine (50 gp). Sardonyx (50 gp).

Description: A middle-aged man, he is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior, and is pretty ugly. His white hair is lengthy. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with his old comrades. He has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: His mother raised him in a mountain cabin. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a son. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Adventurer, Nature, In love. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 200 pp. Violet garnet (1200 gp). Azurite (7 gp). Deep blue spinel (1200 gp). Rhodochrosite (7 gp). White pearl (40 gp). Rich purple corundum (1600 gp). Chrysoprase (70 gp). Sard (70 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He wears a green vest and prefers brown and tan shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. His silver hair is long and unkept. His gold eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. He is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: His arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He inherited a moderately successful company from his father. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and he wants revenge against brigands

Ideals: Joker, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 1000 sp.

Description: This woman is very fat, and wears a simple black robe with grey stripes complete with hood. She has wavy black hair. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. Animals are drawn to her, and she is able to talk to them.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. Her father was a mechanic, and taught her how to fix just about anything. She has worked as a Soapmaker like her father before her.

Motivation: Expand her business; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Gifted, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Slave. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 200 gp.