Description: This tall, slender man prefers to wear flannel. His hair is always cut to a buzz. He has several tiny emerald earrings on each ear.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He uses divination through singing.

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. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. 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 is greedy; and money/treasure

Ideals: Persistence, Gifted. Flaws: Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 1000 sp. Lapis lazuli (12 gp). Tourmaline (130 gp). Red garnet (130 gp).

Description: This man stands a little under 6'6" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He wears well tailored suits and hats with beautiful decoration. He is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. His silver hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. He has blue eyes and a tan hat with a brown feather.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. He does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for him. He lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: He was born at the edge of vast desert. In his 13th year, his parents were killed by a dire rats raid, leaving Roger alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. 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: Nothing but the best is good enough for him; and someone believes him a fraud

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Nature, Enemies. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: This western man is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. His clothes are grease stained in places. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His hazel eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He has a small toy that he constantly fidgets with.

History: When he was but 5 years old his parents immigrated from the west. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Expand his business; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Immigrant, Nature. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 700 gp.

Description: This slender woman stands about 4'8". She is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. She sports a flattop hair cut. Her blue eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She likes to fabricate stories about her past exploits and how crazy she is, but in actuality she is rather bland. She also is a firm believer in the womanly ideal.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. A freak accident while working with her Guard father left her crippled. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Bounty Hunter for the past few years.

Motivation: She made a deal with a demon which lead to her current lot in life, and she's becoming increasingly nervous about it; and to be a guard again

Flaws: Mundane, Impulsive, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Debt. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 800 gp. Rhodochrosite (16 gp). Banded agate (16 gp). Aquamarine (200 gp). Black pearl (200 gp).