Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears suspenders and black workpants. His shirt is violet, and he wears a heavy black leather apron most of the time. His blue hair is lengthy. His silver eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. He is underhanded and not above using his wealth and body to get others to do his bidding.

History: Born in the west to a Masseuse, Therai learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Masseuse. He has been saving his money to try and buy his brother's freedom.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear; and to reunite with his absent father

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Family. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 4000 gp. Golden yellow topaz (400 gp). Deep blue spinel (400 gp). Rhodochrosite (14 gp). Sard (20 gp). Eye agate (14 gp). Chrysoprase (20 gp). Moss agate (14 gp).

Description: This man wears a black cloak and cross-gartered tan stockings, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His blonde hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. His gray eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: Lamlûg hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his writing career. The war was a terrible time for him, and Lamlûg does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. His mother was a soldier and died while he was still young. Lamlûg was left his mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: To end his boredom.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Depressed, Mundane. Bonds: Military, Religious. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 6000 gp. Bloodstone (70 gp). Eye agate (5 gp). Emerald (600 gp). Banded agate (5 gp). Brown-green garnet (70 gp). Moonstone (70 gp). Chrysoberyl (70 gp). Bloodstone (70 gp). Zircon (70 gp). Bloodstone (70 gp). Smoky quartz (70 gp). Zircon (70 gp). Golden pearl (70 gp). Deep green spinel (70 gp). Jade (70 gp). Hematite (5 gp). Alexandrite (900 gp). Black star sapphire (600 gp).

Description: He is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. His red hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. 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 several months after his mother was called into army service. A gifted student he started as a Sculptor, but he got bored and became a Herbalist. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: To be a Sculptor again; and expand his business

Bonds: Attractive, Job, Enemies, Military, Family. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 4000 gp. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This man wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. His white hair has been sun bleached extensively. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. He spends most of his days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There he gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: Boddynock was born into a poor family. Growing up, he dreamt of becoming a Druid, to bring honor to his family’s name. When he came of age, he applied for a position with his town's local guard, looking to work his way up via merit and eventually become a Druid in service of a powerful lord somewhere. Boddynock abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. He spent several years traveling with his friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break.

Ideals: Disciplined. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Poor. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 5000 gp. Iolite (20 gp). Obsidian (13 gp). Red spinel (80 gp). Sardonyx (20 gp). Smoky quartz (20 gp). Blue quartz (13 gp). Obsidian (13 gp). Pink pearl (80 gp). Red spinel (80 gp). White pearl (80 gp). Banded agate (13 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1400 gp). Lapis lazuli (13 gp). Aquamarine (1400 gp). Onyx (20 gp). Black pearl (1400 gp). Bloodstone (20 gp). Silver pearl (80 gp).

Description: She is well dressed, constantly wearing a grey suit, black shirt, and tan tie, and carries nunchakus. Her hair is black and curly. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She will rave to anyone who will listen. She receives visions of the future at random moments

History: Her divine talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. She was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and balancing her hectic life and new crown-heir responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 3000 gp. Moss agate (4 gp). Deep blue spinel (800 gp). Black pearl (800 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (4 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This fat northern woman has a bulbous nose and wears tattered old clothes. Her skin is also unnaturally pale. Her brown hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a small hat. She has amber eyes and a tan hat with a blue feather.

Personality: She is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. She has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She is terrified, and will act out of fear; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Fearful, Insane. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 1400 pp. Chalcedony (80 gp). Iolite (80 gp). Golden pearl (60 gp). Black opal (1100 gp). Deep blue spinel (200 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (1100 gp). Lapis lazuli (12 gp). Lapis lazuli (12 gp). Star ruby (1100 gp). Malachite (12 gp). Chrysoprase (80 gp). Black pearl (200 gp).

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She is renowned for her bright black dresses and hats. Her auburn hair, when down, is lengthy. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. She is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in her opinion.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Fortune-teller arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. In her 15th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her father impaled in their home, and her mother beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. One night she noticed a nearby shooting star which she hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. She has done her darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and she feels threatened by others

Ideals: Persistence, Opinionated, Logical. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 2000 gp. Banded agate (9 gp). Hematite (9 gp). Rhodochrosite (9 gp). Golden pearl (160 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.