Description: He wears tan trousers with blue and tan striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. He carries a battered quarterstaff and tarnished pickaxe as well. He wears his white hair up. His ears are large.

Personality: He likes to make people angry or surprised. He is very protective of his business, his home, and his spouse. He is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. In his youth he was part of a gang. He got caught, but did not rat out his comrades and served his time in prison. He would ruin relationships and cause injury. He was reprimanded several times before being given his current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and a rival would like him out of the picture

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 600 gp.

Description: He is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright black and brown, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. He keeps his scarlet crest in a pixie cut. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. He likes to tell stories.

History: A child with a great deal of poetry talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. A serious injury left his father unemployed and in need of constant care. His family became saddled with debt trying to care for his infirm father. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Sensitive, Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Debt. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: Smoky quartz (60 gp). Alexandrite (1200 gp). Jade (110 gp). Sard (60 gp).

Description: He is wearing a long, grey cloak. He has relatively light skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. His blonde hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. He has gray eyes.

Personality: He is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends he is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy himself. He is kind towards other men and children and will generally offer men help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to him.

History: He was raised in a plains tribe. His father took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. He now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends; and balancing his hectic life and new merchant responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Joker, Philantrophist. Bonds: Nature, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 500 sp. Jasper (80 gp).

Description: A pudgy man standing about 6'6" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He wears a green collared shirt and grey pants. He accessorizes with a black scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. His brown hair is long and unkept. He has a dull look in his black eyes.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. Ostracized due to the psionic powers of his oldest brother, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Tieflings became a terror of the countryside. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Crown-heir responsibilities is difficult; and to reunite with his absent mother

Ideals: Professionalism, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Sensitive. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 400 gp. Red garnet (130 gp). Violet garnet (400 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: The man speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. He seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if he got out from a pool a few moments ago. He wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. His hair is blue and curly. His black unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. He loves teas. He is very sensitive about his face. To blow off anger he lifts weights and to control his otherwise explosive temper he works out a lot.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He spent several years traveling with his friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 7000 sp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: His left side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Herbalist. He has auburn hair. He has a dull look in his blue eyes.

Personality: Prone to second guessing himself, he comes off as nervous. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his writing with anyone who is interested.

History: Born in the west his family was never financially stable. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Artistic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Family, Poor. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A woman of a pale complexion, she wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. Her hair is cut close to her head. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: Cocky and sure of herself, she believes she is the best Merchant born in the past three hundred years. She is very protective of her business, her home, and her spouse. She is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: Siffress was raised in a hard working conservative environment. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. Some 10 years later her spouse died after the birth of her son. Heartbroken, Siffress never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her son whom she trained as her mother had trained her before.

Motivation: She has decided she is irredeemable.

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Job, Criminal record, Rich, In love. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 800 gp.