Description: This slender woman stands about 5'11". She likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. She has done her best to style her silver hair to look like a famous performer. She has several tiny sapphire earrings on each ear.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. She is very protective of her business, her home, and her spouse. She is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: Heir to a fortune, her parents put a great deal of effort into curing her disease. Her first spouse was a Beggar, they had one son, but her spouse won total custody. Without her spouse to temper her she grew out of control. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Marry her brother to traveling adventurers; and she is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 100 gp. Citrine (70 gp). Jade (70 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (8 gp). Brown-green garnet (70 gp).

Description: This exceptionally lanky woman wears a black cloak and cross-gartered brown stockings. Her red hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. Her eyes are gray and catlike.

Personality: She's a bit of a prankster. She knows she is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. She feeds upon the attention of others.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. She moved out south to avoid the crime she committed. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: She wants to meet her childhood hero; and obtaining odd cultural human artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Joker. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Criminal record, Adventurer. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: This man is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of his veins is visible when he is not flexing. His shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for him due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. He wears his black hair up. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. Recently a tribe of gnolls attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Aldous fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the south.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 500 gp. A roughly beaten golden orb (60 gp). A delicate brass dragon egg (20 gp).

Description: He wears long strands of ruby and short grey dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. He is physically well-built. He sports a long auburn beard, and similarly colored long hair. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. He has a cruel streak; something he gained from his previous mentor. He harbors resentment against his former mentor.

History: Heir to a fortune, his parents put a great deal of effort into curing his disease. 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 betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and he's repulsed by the pc

Flaws: Shy, Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: Rich, Mentor. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 5000 sp. Pink pearl (70 gp). Golden yellow topaz (800 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.