Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears a blue coat over a yellow low-cut shirt, and a feathered hat upon his head. His golden hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. He has gleaming, smiling blue eyes.

Personality: He is envious of other's things. He hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that he so desires. He is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: Born to a Cook, his mother struggled to pay the bills. Aldous was born on a far eastern island where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Stableman. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Stableman.

Motivation: Expand his business; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Greedy. Bonds: Immigrant, Poor, Job. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 300 gp. Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (500 gp). Solid gold idol (800 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1400 gp).

Description: He is dressed in earthy colors with a brown and white handkerchief worn on his right side. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his bastard sword, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a rose on it. His long chestnut hair reaches down to his waist. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He is cautious and jumpy. He reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 13 years.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and he feels threatened by others

Ideals: Professionalism, Fighting. Flaws: Insane, Fearful. Bonds: Military, Job. Occupation: Server

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: He wears skinny pants and wears a brown and black robe with the hood down. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. His silver hair is smooth and relatively long. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. While he appears to be a normal Human, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west; and he feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insane, Shy. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Baker

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 200 gp. An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (60 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1400 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is a pot bellied eastern woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her longbow with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. She wears her auburn hair down. She has gleaming, smiling blue eyes.

Personality: She acts crazy and hedonistic. She is an amazing painter.

History: A powerful wizard made her what she is. Her mother disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her mother, she was betrayed dozens of times. By chance she met her brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Mentor, Family. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 4000 sp. Red spinel (130 gp). Moss agate (13 gp). Sardonyx (20 gp). Obsidian (13 gp).