Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He dresses in green turtlenecks beneath a red coat with pastel slacks. He has done his best to style his black crest to look like a famous performer. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with singing. He constantly tries to fill his life with singing. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Apothecary arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He has had some formal singing training, and achieved minor success. 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, Professionalism, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). Solid gold idol (500 gp).

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She likes to wear ponchos typically of a light pastel in addition to tight pants. She has moderate length beige fur. This yellow eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: In the realm of puns, she cannot help herself. She feels obliged to make them. She is underhanded and not above using her wealth and body to get others to do her bidding.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 5 years.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down; and expand her business

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Mentor, Job. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: He prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. He has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. His hair is auburn, silky, and of moderate length. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. 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: He was born in a small mountains village. A freak accident while working with his Shoemaker father left him crippled. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Enemies, Nature. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 130 gp. 3 Acid flasks.

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. She usually doesn't wear a shirt. She has wavy blonde hair. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She likes to make people angry or surprised. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: Her mother raised her in a mountain cabin. She was a friend to animals and a trickster. In her defense of animals however she would do severe harm to people. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and balancing her hectic life and new architect responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Gifted, Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Nature, Job. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Relaxed voice

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

Description: An older man who wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with black lining and desert motifs, he is not a threatening figure. His blue hair is matted, messy, and big. This red eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He is envious of other's things. He hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that he so desires. He has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: He was born at the edge of vast mountains. At a young age both his parents were killed in an accident. His uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took him in and had him trained in basic self defense. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: He wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and he feels threatened by others

Flaws: Ugly, Greedy, Fearful. Bonds: Nature, Criminal record. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Darkwood Buckler. 1 Breastplate. 1 Breastplate.

Description: She stands about 5'7" and wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty brown coat over it. Her left hand appears badly burned and disfigured. Her brown hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. This green eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She goes out her way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one she won't accept into her heart. She does not believe in violence as a means to an end. She is a dedicated Ruler but believes her peers are too gung-ho.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. She was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. She has dedicated herself to building a better world.

Motivation: She wants to meet her childhood hero.

Ideals: Optimist, Pacifist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 1300 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: His right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He has the majority of his body covered in plate. He keeps his long red crest kept up in a rat tail. His eyes are gold and beady.

Personality: He has two modes he varies between. On the job he is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job he is a party animal. Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly.

History: A powerful slaver made him what he is. Like his mother and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Spice Merchant. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Spice Merchant for the past few years.

Motivation: Expand his business; and balancing his hectic life and new spice merchant responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Job, Mentor. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 900 gp. Sardonyx (80 gp). Carnelian (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he wears a fancy black suit. His blonde hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. His amber eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Dharg isn't afraid of most anything. He has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Half-Orc unity. He is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: Dharg lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Dharg grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Dharg. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: To protect his home; and he has decided he is irredeemable

Ideals: Impeccable, Logical. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Criminal record, Guardian. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item.

Description: An older woman who typically wears yellow cloth garments or leather armor, she is not a threatening figure. Her hair is cut close to her head. She is baby faced.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Williamina will drive conversation. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: Williamina lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Her childhood dream was to be a Spice Merchant, but she was a colossal failure. She has worked as a Ruler like her mother before her.

Motivation: To be a Spice Merchant again.

Ideals: Extrovert. Bonds: Religious, Family, Job. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 80 gp. Bloodstone (30 gp).