Description: He is of a modest build and height, but he carries himself more imposing than he is. He wears long strands of sapphire and short white dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. With a patchy brown beard and wild brown hair. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep blue.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. 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: His necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His father was a soldier and died while he was still young. Bertram was left his father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. 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 wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and he is greedy

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Rich, Military. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 2000 gp. Iolite (60 gp). Chalcedony (60 gp). Smoky quartz (60 gp). Moonstone (60 gp). Rich purple corundum (1400 gp). Rock crystal (60 gp). Emerald (1400 gp). Red garnet (50 gp). Rhodochrosite (13 gp). White pearl (50 gp). Hematite (13 gp). Pink pearl (50 gp). Smoky quartz (60 gp). Alexandrite (1500 gp). Silver pearl (50 gp). White pearl (50 gp).

Description: This exceptionally lanky man wears a tattered pair of loose green pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. His blue hair is singed and shortened. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: Tethren hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his dancing career. Flattery will make him almost putty in your hands.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Tethren was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He has had some formal dancing training, and achieved minor success. He has never given up on his dancing dream.

Motivation: To unite with his brother; and marry his brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Selfish. Bonds: Poor, Mentor. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 700 gp.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. She dresses like a well dressed Unemployed does. Her wide-brimmed hat is riddled with cuts and holes. Her gold eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She likes to make people angry or surprised. She has a cruel streak; something she gained from her previous mentor. She harbors resentment against her former mentor.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Unemployed arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. She has worked as a Unemployed like her father before her.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and sabotage a competitor

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Mentor, Rich. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 1000 gp.

Description: This late middle aged woman prefers to wear brown clothing when she does not wear armor and is in decent physical shape. She is bald on top and has large golden tufts of hair around her ears. Her blue eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: She is irascible and easily irritated. To her fellows she is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: She got into the Merchant business at a young age. Her parents were killed by giants in a raid when she was still a young child. The giants captured her, and made her a slave and general play-thing. She was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to her deformed appearance. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: A deep hatred of giants.

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Enemies, Job. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 1100 gp.

Description: She wears a blue coat over a grey low-cut shirt, and a broad hat upon her head. She cuts an attractive figure and her suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. She sports a flattop hair cut. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She has schizophrenia that causes her to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. She is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Cursed with lycanthropy at a very young age, Shanairla has worked very hard to control her curse. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: She seems to be bored by most things; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Disease, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: Violet garnet (600 gp). Chrysoberyl (140 gp). Smoky quartz (40 gp).

Description: He likes to wear red tank tops with black pants. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. His hair is short and golden. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. He takes great joy in being the best Performer in town.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. A gifted student he started as a Fletcher, but he got bored and became a Performer. He hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world; and to end his boredom

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Mundane, Insomniac, Impulsive. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: 4'1" and muscular, this northern man typically wears brown cloth garments or leather armor. His long brown hair reaches down to his waist. He has several tiny sapphire earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes drow are coming to abduct people. To his fellows he is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: Gardain hails from a village terrorized by drow. A few years later when the south was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He left for the north, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Athletic. Bonds: Rich, Enemies, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured. She has styled her black hair well, parting it to the right. Her brown eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating she would invite many more into her home than her spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: She was born into a rich family. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a son. She got away from her former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and she is greedy

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Rich, In love. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 700 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. Her dark red hair has been sun bleached extensively. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. She is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: She was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for her. It may also be what makes her so good at details. Cursed with a spirit at a very young age, Ronwe has worked very hard to control her curse. She hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out.

Flaws: Sensitive, Selfish, Disease, Insomniac. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 140 pp. 1 Minor magic item.