Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He wears a fine chain shirt which he covers with white colored cloaks and clothing. He has moderate length red hair. His eyes are brown and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. He receives visions of the future at random moments

History: His arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. A serious injury left his father unemployed and in need of constant care. His family became saddled with debt trying to care for his infirm father. He found several beat up suits of armor and, cannibalizing spare parts, he put together a working one.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Ideals: Passionate, Gifted, Persistence. Bonds: Debt, Adventurer. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 800 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. She has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: She feels threatened by others; and a strong sense of loyalty to human people

Flaws: Shy, Fearful, Disease. Bonds: Poor, Attractive. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 20 pp. Blue quartz (9 gp). Golden pearl (60 gp). Rhodochrosite (9 gp).

Description: A middle-aged man, he wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with small hat, and is pretty ugly. His hair is always cut to a buzz. His eyes are brown and beady.

Personality: Percival hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his poetry career. Percival enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: When he was but 5 years old his parents immigrated from the north. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He has never given up on his poetry dream.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and retire the richest man in the north

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Immigrant, Mentor. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She wears brown painted combat armor at almost all times. Her chestnut hair is singed and shortened. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She resents people who mock her appearance or her, so she has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. She is fiercely devoted to her mother, and views her mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-brother.

History: She was born several months after her mother was called into army service. Her mother disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her mother, she was betrayed dozens of times. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well; and doesn't want to be a carter and was forced into it by her family

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Family, Military. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 5000 sp.