Description: This eastern man likes to wear black tank tops with white pants. His clothes are grease stained in places. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy brown hair. His brown eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends he is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy himself. A true patriot, Nicholas would do anything for his country. He is fiercely protective of his fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the east. His mother was a soldier and died while he was still young. Nicholas was left his mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and he has decided he is irredeemable

Ideals: Joker, Fighting. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Military. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 700 gp. Solid gold idol (800 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (500 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (130 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1600 gp).

Description: A man of a pale complexion, he dresses like a well dressed Mayor does. He sports a flattop hair cut. His eyes are green and beady.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. Energy wise he seems alert and responsive.

History: A child with a great deal of painting talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. He has had some formal painting training, and achieved minor success. He struck the Mayor job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Mayor responsibilities is difficult; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Gifted, Professionalism, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 4000 sp.

Description: She appears as an extremely gaunt Human, and stands approximately 4'8". She wears a large hat to cast shadows over her face and wears ponchos to better hide her body, and her gloved hand is found clutching a pickaxe. Her chestnut hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. Her eyes are green.

Personality: She is a jovial happy person, but she is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her singing with anyone who is interested.

History: Heather was born with her father's beautiful face. The family's rival house kidnapped her sister with the intent that her sister marry their son to gain control of contested properties. She has never given up on her singing dream.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and to unite with her sister

Ideals: Optimist, Artistic. Bonds: Family, Attractive. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 800 gp.

Description: She has a missing left arm. She wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty pastel coat over it. Her red hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. Her violet eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She is unhospitable to her core. Her small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. She has all her life been fascinated with writing.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. Ostracized due to the arcane 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 was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 2000 sp. Amber (150 gp). Fire opal (600 gp). Lapis lazuli (13 gp). 1 Minor magic item.