Description: Runty and weak-looking, she wears baggy tan pantaloons and a green scarf. Her black hair is knotted and matted. Her violet eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: Helen is depressed about a lot of things. She tends to be a nihilist. She has all her life been fascinated with painting.

History: She got into the Merchant business at a young age. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Merchant hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She has achieved small success as a Merchant.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and balancing her hectic life and new merchant responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He is dressed in earthy colors with a black and green handkerchief worn on his right side. He has a silver handlebar mustache and slicked back silver hair. His eyes are blue and beady.

Personality: He loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. As a very small child his family refused to pay dues to a local crime lord, who ordered them killed. His father, a somewhat powerful mage sought to protect him and cast a teleportation spell that whisked him away. He would ruin relationships and cause injury. He was reprimanded several times before being given his current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and he will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Family, Religious. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 40 pp.

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. He carries his fan with him everywhere and carries himself as the perfect gentleman. His golden hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: He hates Humans with a passion. As such he is filled with self loathing. He can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. 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: Athletic, Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 700 gp. Obsidian (9 gp). Sard (80 gp).

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. He has shaved his head bald. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. He is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with his big mouthed big gutted partner. His partner is his best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. He refers to his adoptive father for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: Born to a Detective, his father struggled to pay the bills. Like his father and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Bather. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Bather.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well; and marry his sister to traveling adventurers

Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Adventurer, Family, Job. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 4000 sp. Alexandrite (600 gp). 1 Minor magic item.