Description: A middle-aged man, he prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. He carries his fan with him everywhere and carries himself as the perfect gentleman, and is pretty ugly. His brown fur is matted, messy, and big. His eyes are yellow.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Rich, Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: This slender man stands about 5'3". He wears a black cloak and cross-gartered violet stockings. His silver hair is heavily combed to the left. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as he rather likes the sound of his voice. His demeanor is somewhat feminine. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the south. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered painting. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and to reunite with his absent father

Ideals: Optimist, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 80 pp. 1 Masterwork Thieves’ tools. 1 Masterwork Musical instrument.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He wears green robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally he wears more armor. He prefers to carry a shield, but if one is not available he will default to his warhammer. His chestnut hair has been sun bleached extensively. His black eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks his mind. He is accommodating to his spouse and as such limits his hospitality. He is brave and levelheaded in the face of danger and has proven himself a capable leader.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a daughter. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: In love, Religious. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 120 pp. Deep blue spinel (500 gp). Banded agate (12 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. He has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. His brown hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. He has a dull look in his green eyes.

Personality: He misses his glory days as an athlete. He does not mind his job, but it is boring in comparison. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Spice Merchant arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He has achieved small success as a Spice Merchant.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 900 gp. Alexandrite (300 gp). Iolite (20 gp). Freshwater pearl (16 gp). Jade (140 gp). Onyx (20 gp). Bloodstone (20 gp). Alexandrite (300 gp).

Description: This younger middle-aged woman wears silk and lounges about seductively, and a wedding ring on her right hand. She has dyed her greying brass crest a little too much giving a sharp brass color. She has several tiny jet earrings on each ear.

Personality: She is irritable and easily angered. She is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use her stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage son.

History: Farideh 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 west. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion.

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, In love, Rich, Family. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 1700 sp.