Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Ruler. He wears his chestnut hair up. His eyes are amber and beady.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. 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: His necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. 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 now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east.

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 10000 cp. White pearl (110 gp). 1 Darkwood Buckler.

Description: He dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head, and he perpetually has his spear ready. His white hair is thinning but still full. He has green eyes.

Personality: Deceptive and manipulative this northern guy figured out how to best use his charms to convince people to do what he wants. He is fiercely devoted to his mother, and views his mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-brother.

History: He was born in a small desert village. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Masseuse for hire.

Motivation: Expand his business; and to unite with his brother

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Nature, Job. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 300 gp. Violet garnet (500 gp). Sard (40 gp). Black pearl (500 gp). Black pearl (500 gp).

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He is dressed in an above average manner. He has moderate length silver crest. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: His martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He has been saving his money to try and buy his brother's freedom.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Forgetful. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 8000 sp. Star rose quartz (60 gp). Rich purple corundum (600 gp). Violet garnet (1600 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with wide-brimmed hat. His green crest is smooth and relatively long. His gold eyes peer out from beneath his wide-brimmed white hat.

Personality: He has schizophrenia that causes him to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: He got into the Mayor business at a young age. In his youth he was part of a gang. He got caught, but did not rat out his comrades and served his time in prison. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: Wants his loneliness to end; and he would like to get married and retire

Flaws: Disease, Fearful. Bonds: Job, Criminal record, Has a crush. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 1900 gp. Sapphire pendant on gold chain (2300 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1200 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (2300 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (1100 gp).