Description: He is scrawny and has patchy white stubble. He prefers to wear flannel. He has a hunchback. His hair is short and white. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Bertram is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: Born in the east to a Painter, Bertram learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. His parents divorced when he was young, and his mother gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his mother, who blamed him for driving them apart. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and balancing his hectic life and new painter responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Passionate, Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Painter

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She wears a green costume with the symbols of the four houses of cards on her torso. Her black hair is thinning but still full. Her brown eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She is fixated on the number 55. She counts her steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. She seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. She is underhanded and not above using her wealth and body to get others to do her bidding.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Yvonne grew up listening to her father's many stories. Ostracized due to the divine powers of her oldest sister, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Humans became a terror of the countryside. She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature trident.

Motivation: Marry her sister to traveling adventurers; and she desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: She wears white trousers with green and black striped suspenders. She wears various colorful collared shirts. Her skin is fair and her fingers are delicate and long. She wears her blonde hair up. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She is quiet and unassuming. She ignores others and carries on with her job unassumingly. A fanatic, her devotion to her small selection of gods is unquestionable. She claims to be doing their will and will base all her actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: Born in the east to a Carter, Jane learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Carter hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature club.

Motivation: Meet up once more with her childhood friend; and she has passion for adventuring and risk

Bonds: Attractive, Job, Religious, Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 800 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This woman wears a white collared shirt and black skirt. She accessorizes with a pastel scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across her shirt, and sports empty pouches on her belt. Her black hair is greasy and uncared for. She has a dull look in her brown eyes.

Personality: She has schizophrenia that causes her to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. She is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. She likes to tell stories.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Margery was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her father gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her father, who blamed her for driving them apart. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She feels threatened by others.

Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Fearful, Antagonistic. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: Just what you see.