Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. His long silver hair reaches down to his waist. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. He refers to his adoptive mother for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: He got into the Layabout business at a young age. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Layabout responsibilities is difficult; and doesn't want to be a layabout and was forced into it by his family

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Job. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Chain shirt.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her tied-back hair is black. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She is shy and timid. She has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Her father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her father was legitimate. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions; and she is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Religious. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She is well dressed, but even with her fine clothing she looks run-down. She has golden hair. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She will rave to anyone who will listen. She claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day she will do what she thinks is right.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the south. She always admired psionic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She was granted psionic powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally.

Ideals: Athletic, Justice, Gifted. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 20000 cp. Hematite (13 gp). Star ruby (700 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is lean but muscular and wears a green tunic with black highlights, and long blue pants that bunch up around his shoes. His golden hair has been sun bleached extensively. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his amber eyes.

Personality: Robert hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his singing career. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: His father raised him in a mountain cabin. His mother took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his sons to still be retired.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister

Ideals: Artistic, Optimist. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Family. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 20000 cp. 1 Darkwood Buckler. 1 Darkwood Shield. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Darkwood Shield.