Description: This fat southern man has a bulbous nose and dresses in yellow turtlenecks beneath a brown coat with white slacks. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His blonde hair is cut short. He has gleaming, smiling violet eyes.

Personality: He will rave to anyone who will listen. He is very protective of his business, his home, and his spouse. He is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Bernard 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 Bernard. He would ruin relationships and cause injury. He was reprimanded several times before being given his current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: He possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal.

Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 40 pp. Black opal (1000 gp). Amethyst (140 gp).

Description: This tall, slender man wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). His blonde hair is smooth and relatively long. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the south. He is cautious and jumpy. He reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: He was born into a rich family. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. He became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: He feels kind of lost in life; and obtaining odd cultural human artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Fearful, Depressed. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 200 gp. Rich purple corundum (400 gp).

Description: Her left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise she appears quite healthy. She dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over her head. Her brown hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. 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 in a small forest village. In her 15th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her mother impaled in their home, and her father beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. She bought a glaive and has really upped her game hunting, due to her understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: To clean up the streets; and she is terrified, and will act out of fear

Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Guardian, Religious, Nature. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A moderately attractive man, he wears a green vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His yellow leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his green boots flare out at the collars. His hair is short and golden. His fierce violet eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. He is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: Gomory was born with his father's beautiful face. He always admired martial-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the south; and to pay off his debts

Ideals: Joker, Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 500 gp. 1 Full Plate.