Description: This tall, slender man wears dark leathers with embroidery. His white hair and beard is wavy and long. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. A fanatic, his devotion to his small selection of gods is unquestionable. He claims to be doing their will and will base all his actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. A freak accident while working with his Seamstress mother left him crippled. He eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs; and to protect his home

Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Guardian, Religious, Military. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 200 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (40 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (40 gp).

Description: This woman wears a blue vest and prefers yellow and red shirts. Her boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized emerald on her left hand. She is bald on top and has large golden tufts of hair around her ears. Her violet eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Ranala is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: The child of a Barrister, who enjoyed hunting, Ranala was taken on many hunting expeditions. Her mother took her hunting and taught her how to get in the mind of other creatures. She has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: She is greedy; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Rich, Nature. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 1200 gp. Bloodstone (20 gp). Blue star sapphire (1100 gp). Bloodstone (20 gp). Amethyst (70 gp). Golden pearl (70 gp). Fire opal (1100 gp). Hematite (13 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This tall, slender woman is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing grey cape and mantle trimmed with soft white waves gently in the breeze. She wears a Stetson hat to cover her moderate length black hair. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. She is a ruthless business woman, a trait she acquired from her father.

History: Her martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. She has had some formal painting training, and achieved minor success. She tends to her Courier job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and expand her business

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted, Artistic. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 370 gp. Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (500 gp). Solid gold idol (600 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp). 1 Masterwork Light wooden shield.

Description: 4'8" and lanky with angular features, she is an attractive figure. She is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright green and white, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. She has moderate length chestnut hair. Her fierce silver eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. She is skeptical of what others tell her and is slow to trust.

History: Kali was born in the east. At a young age she loved to build and create. Kali was born on a far eastern desert where she grew up under the tutelage of her mother, an expert Cook. She left for the east, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well; and money/treasure

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 2000 sp. Cloth of gold vestments (60 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1000 gp).

Description: This man wears a black cloak and cross-gartered brown stockings. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized jet on his right hand. His green crest is lengthy and is close to two feet long. 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 extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks his mind. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing writing.

History: He comes from a rich northern family. He has had some formal writing training, and achieved minor success. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Insomniac, Shy. Bonds: Rich, Religious. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 230 pp. Violet garnet (1400 gp). Freshwater pearl (7 gp). Brown-green garnet (160 gp). White opal (1400 gp). Chrysoprase (50 gp). Deep blue spinel (1400 gp). Aquamarine (1400 gp).