Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears brown painted combat armor at almost all times. His hair is cut close to his head. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He will rave to anyone who will listen. He would rather hide behind his crafts than deal with other people.

History: He was born in the south. He has had some formal poetry training, and achieved minor success. He left for the south, certain he would find work there.

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

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Insane, Shy. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Dark and ominous

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

Description: This man is very fat, and wears a green cloak and cross-gartered brown stockings. His hair is silver and very short. His ears are large.

Personality: Balimaar is depressed about a lot of things. He tends to be a nihilist. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. 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 now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He loathes his own lifestyle; and he has money and likes to spend it

Flaws: Ugly, Depressed, Fearful. Bonds: Slave, Rich. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 4000 sp.

Description: This fat western man has a bulbous nose and is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing brown cape and mantle trimmed with soft white waves gently in the breeze. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His hair is short and blonde. His gray eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: While he is on the job, he is grim and serious. He understands how dangerous the world is and the need to stay safe. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: He got into the Brewer business at a young age. His childhood dream was to be a Doctor, but he was a colossal failure. 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: Expand his business.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: Standing 5'10", this woman is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. Her wide-brimmed hat is riddled with cuts and holes. Her eyes are hazel and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She is envious of other's things. She hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that she so desires. As she has aged she has sought to do reparations for her actions as a youth. She is also making sure that her compatriots who never received punishment for their crimes are brought to justice.

History: Trained by her father for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Galiena 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 Galiena. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: She has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day; and she will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Greedy. Bonds: Criminal record, Military. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 800 gp. 1 Darkwood Buckler. 1 Masterwork Heavy wooden shield. 1 Darkwood Shield.