Description: A middle-aged man, he prefers to wear blue clothing when he does not wear armor, and is pretty ugly. His chestnut hair is braided into rings. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep violet.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: Gifted from a young age, Frouse studied abroad. When Frouse reached his early adolescence his Gnome father passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, he decided to travel. His rounds led him into the Army with a few individuals who would become his life-long companions. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Military, Family. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 60 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp).

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. His silver hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: His arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Ahvain 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 Ahvain. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 290 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She wears just a brown suit. She has wavy chestnut hair. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Ella will drive conversation. She is an amazing painter.

History: She was born at the edge of vast forest. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Bricklayer. She became a Bricklayer soon after.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Bricklayer responsibilities is difficult; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Extrovert, Gifted. Bonds: Poor, Nature, Job. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: Onyx (70 gp).

Description: She stands about 5'0" and is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright blue and green, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. Her left leg appears badly burned and disfigured. Her moppish brown hair is in a traditional bowl cut. Her violet eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: Calm and collected, she is a well trained Fletcher. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Maiathah is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: When she was but 6 years old her parents immigrated from the north. Her parents enrolled her in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that she could practice her necromantic talents. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Fletcher.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Justice, Gifted. Bonds: Rich, Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 600 sp. Red garnet (80 gp).

Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a beer of some kind. He is wearing a long, grey, dusty cloak, marred by beers. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His brown unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He takes great joy in being the best Dyer in town.

History: The child of a Fisher, who enjoyed hunting, Lewis was taken on many hunting expeditions. After coming to the age of reason, Lewis took it upon himself to study the arcane arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He struck the Dyer job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and to protect his home

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Guardian, Job, Nature. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 600 sp. 2 Antitoxin.

Description: She wears a black armored body suit, with a simple green line shooting up and back down. She is portly but not overly obese. With wild red hair. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She seems absolutely devoid of it. She stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. She uses her nature as a weapon; she likes to lead opponents to think her in distress.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: She seems to be bored by most things; and she is content

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Mundane, Secretive. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing tan cape and mantle trimmed with soft yellow waves gently in the breeze. His long golden hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation he is generally quite perceptive. He notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and he uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Insomniac, Insane. Bonds: Rich, Attractive. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: This malnourished man is wearing a tight white one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His gray eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. He is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: Folgûm was born with his father's beautiful face. He has had some formal poetry training, and achieved minor success. He has never given up on his poetry dream.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Passionate, Logical, Artistic. Bonds: Poor, Attractive. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: This dark-skinned female wears light armors faded through time and improper care. She is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. Her moppish black hair is in a traditional bowl cut. Her half smiles and gray eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: She loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. Her brief stint in the army gave her the idea she was invincible and that she is the toughest woman alive.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. Her mother disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her mother, she was betrayed dozens of times. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Ruler they were divorced and she won custody of their son. She worked as a Jeweler, and she later adopted a second son.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage.

Ideals: Opinionated. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Family. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 700 sp. Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (70 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (500 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (500 gp).