Description: This tall, slender man is well dressed, constantly wearing a black suit, white shirt, and grey tie. His silver hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. He has gold eyes.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Bricklayer arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. 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: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 1600 gp. Chalcedony (60 gp). Amethyst (60 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1300 gp). Aquamarine (1300 gp). Fire opal (1200 gp). Jasper (60 gp).

Description: This eastern man is abnormally tall. He wears professional attire. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. He keeps his brass crest in a flapper bob. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his gold eyes.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. He is a bit of a macho man and will challenge people to random contests of strength and skill, and invite them to random hunting and fishing trip.

History: He was raised in a forest tribe. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. Recently a tribe of dire rats attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Bharash fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

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

Ideals: Joker, Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Nature. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 14000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This eastern man wears skinny pants and wears a green and brown robe with the hood down. His clothes are grease stained in places. His blonde hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. He has hazel eyes and a green 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 believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Soapmaker but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Gnomes in the east were limited. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east; and to find somewhere to settle down

Ideals: Pacifist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 6000 sp. A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (180 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1800 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1700 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (180 gp). 1 Masterwork Thieves’ tools. 1 Spyglass. 1 Masterwork Musical instrument. 1 Spyglass.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking eastern young adult. He wears silk and lounges about seductively. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His orange fur, when down, is lengthy. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: Cloak was born the youngest of three triplets. His first spouse was a Knight, they had one daughter, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent father; and wants to raise his children well

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Slave, Family. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 600 gp.