Description: A moderately attractive man, he wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. His hair, while still mostly black, has prominent grey streaks. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. After coming to the age of reason, Himo took it upon himself to study the divine arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Expand his business; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Religious. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 500 gp. Carnelian (80 gp). Eye agate (16 gp). Jade (100 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She is well dressed, constantly wearing a tan suit, brown shirt, and red tie. Her moppish silver hair is in a traditional bowl cut. She has gleaming, smiling green eyes.

Personality: She is business-like. She takes instructions and follows them to the letter. Her brief stint in the army gave her the idea she was invincible and that she is the toughest woman alive.

History: Dara lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. A gifted student she started as a Architect, but she got bored and became a Performer. She has achieved small success as a Performer.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and wants to raise her children well

Ideals: Professionalism. Bonds: Immigrant, Military, Family, Job. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 80 pp.

Description: This man is very fat, and prefers to wear white clothing when he does not wear armor. He keeps his silver hair in a flapper bob. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: He is a jovial happy person, but he is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. He would rather hide behind his crafts than deal with other people.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Fortune-teller arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered singing. He has never given up on his singing dream.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Optimist, Artistic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 200 gp. Azurite (12 gp). Banded agate (12 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is an average looking southern male in his early mid-life. He wears long strands of opal and short grey dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. He wears his blonde hair up in a very large beehive style do. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with poetry. He constantly tries to fill his life with poetry. He is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. A freak accident while working with his Bellfounder mother left him crippled. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and money/treasure

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Military. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She wears a grey collared shirt and red skirt. She accessorizes with a tan scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across her shirt. Her black hair is heavily combed to the right. She is baby faced.

Personality: She snorts whenever she laughs or is feeling confident. Energy wise she seems alert and responsive.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Kristryd was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. Like her father and her brother before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Dyer. She has worked as a Dyer like her father before her.

Motivation: Regain custody of her daughter; and balancing her hectic life and new dyer responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Professionalism. Bonds: Mentor, Job, Family. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 3000 cp.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking eastern young adult. He wears yellow leather gloves, a yellow jacket, and tight pants. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. He wears his brown hair down. 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 quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. Any perceived weakness will be pressed and exploited. He is seen as merciless and passionate.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform Being a Laborer kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out.

Ideals: Disciplined, Logical. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Slave, Criminal record. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 600 gp.

Description: He is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior, and carries pickaxes. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy chestnut hair. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He snorts whenever he laughs or is feeling confident. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. He was taken from his home at a very young age. He was forced to fight in gladiatorial arenas alongside his partner. They became the best of friends and one day they managed to break out together and then went their separate ways.

Motivation: He wants to get laid; and he has a crush on the local sailor

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Secretive. Bonds: Religious, Slave, Has a crush. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 500 gp. Freshwater pearl (4 gp). Blue star sapphire (500 gp). Deep blue spinel (500 gp). Azurite (4 gp). White opal (500 gp). Jasper (60 gp). Red spinel (140 gp). Black star sapphire (500 gp).