Description: He wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. He has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. He has done his best to style his blonde hair to look like a famous performer. His fierce brown eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. His temper goes off on the smallest of things. He tends to lash out at those around him.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Courier arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. His father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. Being a Courier kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: To settle down with his crush; and he is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Flaws: Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record, Has a crush. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 400 gp. Deep blue spinel (400 gp). Deep green spinel (50 gp). Peridot (70 gp).

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears grey painted combat armor at almost all times. His chestnut hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a top hat. He has several tiny sapphire earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is quite rude, and likes to deride his opponents skill and shout insults at them. He will do just about anything if he becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this he is easily convinced.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. 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's in love; and he's attracted to the pc

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Has a crush. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 200 gp. Obsidian (9 gp). Iolite (80 gp). Black star sapphire (900 gp).

Description: He wears bulky brown painted plate armor. He wears a colorful flower in his brown hair. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: The child of southern immigrants he idolized his mother. His mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He left for the south, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it.

Flaws: Insomniac, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 800 gp.

Description: She wears long strands of topaz and short grey dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. She has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. Her silver hair is knotted and matted. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her blue eyes.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, she has a hard time making friends. She disdains her fellow northerners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: Joan was born the youngest of three triplets. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion; and wants to raise her children well

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 600 gp. 1 Minor magic item.