Description: He wears well tailored suits and hats with beautiful decoration. He is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. He has golden hair. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He is fiercely devoted to his father, and views his father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-sister.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent father; and an old rival family wants him found

Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Rich, Family, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Server

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 400 sp. Blue quartz (11 gp).

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He wears violet leather gloves, a violet jacket, and tight pants. His auburn hair is matted, messy, and big. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the east. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his father.

History: He was born into a rich family. He was taken from his home at a very young age. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Pacifist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Slave. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 350 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp).

Description: His skin is bronze and flawless. He wears a fancy blue suit. He is an epitome of beauty. He sports a flattop hair cut. His gray eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. He is harsh and unforgiving.

History: His arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. After a long history of fighting, Naal and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor, Job. Occupation: Unemployed

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

Possessions: 140 gp. Pink pearl (120 gp).

Description: He wears a brown shirt with thin white vertical stripes and black pants. He carries with him a set of warhammers on his belt, each one with a opal on the hilt. His fur is short and beige. His blue unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. He lacks restraint and is impulsive. He jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Cloak was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. Cursed with lycanthropy at a very young age, Cloak has worked very hard to control his curse. He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: He doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Disease, Terse, Impulsive. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: Zircon (60 gp). White pearl (40 gp).

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. His crest is bronze, silky, and of moderate length. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are gold.

Personality: He is envious of other's things. He hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that he so desires. He has a small toy that he constantly fidgets with.

History: His mother raised him in a mountain cabin. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Dragonborns in the east were limited. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: He wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away.

Flaws: Greedy, Addict. Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 1000 cp.

Description: An older woman who wears long strands of sapphire and short white dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths, she is not a threatening figure. Her silver hair is greasy and uncared for. Her hazel unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She tends to agree with only herself unless someone else's opinion sounds like she can profit from it. She tries to control her temper but she can't always stop herself from what she feels what must be done. She is used to getting what she wants. In part because she is a meticulous planner.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her father always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. Cursed with vampirism at a very young age, Gynk has worked very hard to control her curse. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and money/treasure

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 1000 cp.

Description: This slender man stands about 4'7". He has a large blue mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into his green robe. His black hair is cut short. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. He is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with his big mouthed big gutted partner. His partner is his best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage daughter.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when dire rats swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. Being born in the east, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the east for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way north. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Barkeep and was forced into it by his family; and regain custody of his daughter

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Family, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 400 sp.

Description: This malnourished woman is wearing a long, yellow cloak. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. Her gray eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: Quiet and reserved she prefers to listen than to talk. She will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. Her father was a soldier and died while she was still young. Althaea was left her father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: Marry her sister to traveling adventurers.

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Military, Family. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He is well dressed, constantly wearing a brown suit, white shirt, and blue tie. His white hair is smooth and relatively long. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist he will grow angry at them.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. His childhood dream was to be a Guard, but he was a colossal failure. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and he's repulsed by the pc

Flaws: Insane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Job, In love. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 250 gp.