Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He wears a simple black robe with brown stripes complete with hood. He wears a colorful flower in his chestnut hair. He has several tiny amber earrings on each ear.

Personality: Robert speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. He is clearly well-traveled and educated. He is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: The child of southern immigrants he idolized his mother. He always admired arcane-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. 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; and he doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes

Ideals: Impeccable, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. He carries his fan with him everywhere and carries himself as the perfect gentleman. He has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. His brown hair is greasy and uncared for. His eyes are likewise gray. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: This man loves painting and to teach people painting more than just about anything. He enjoys reading and quiet.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Geoffrey was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He inherited a moderately successful company from his father. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Artistic, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Mentor. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 300 gp. Tourmaline (160 gp).

Description: A thin woman, she clearly needs to put on some weight, but she still has a lot of muscle. She wears white leather gloves, a white jacket, and tight pants. Her red hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. Her gray eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She is witty, but her monotone delivery comes off as unnerving She enjoys reading and quiet.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Matilda grew up listening to her father's many stories. Like her father and her sister before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Shepherd. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Shepherd responsibilities is difficult; and she wants to meet her childhood hero

Ideals: Athletic, Joker, Logical. Bonds: Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 700 gp. Red garnet (150 gp). Azurite (5 gp). Jet (150 gp). Peridot (60 gp).

Description: She wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). She carries with her a set of crossbows on her belt, each one with a opal on the hilt. Her long golden hair reaches down to her waist. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: Beatrice is a sociable creature first and foremost. She loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. She can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. She has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: Her martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. Recently a tribe of illithids attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Beatrice fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Fighting, Extrovert, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 1000 sp. Banded agate (8 gp). Jade (150 gp). Bloodstone (80 gp). Freshwater pearl (8 gp).