Description: This fat eastern man has a bulbous nose and typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep pastel leather and dull brown iron scale mail. His skin is also unnaturally pale. He has done his best to style his blonde hair to look like a famous performer. He has several tiny topaz earrings on each ear.

Personality: This man loves dancing and to teach people dancing more than just about anything. His brief stint in the army gave him the idea he was invincible and that he is the toughest man alive.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Military, Religious. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 300 gp. Lapis lazuli (4 gp). Red spinel (90 gp). Black pearl (200 gp).

Description: He wears violet trousers with grey and blue striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. With a patchy silver beard and wild silver hair. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. He disdains his fellow southerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: When he was but 7 years old his parents immigrated from the south. His mother was a soldier and died while he was still young. Galinndan was left his mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. He was granted arcane powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Terse. Bonds: Immigrant, Military. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 180 pp. Red spinel (80 gp). Azurite (4 gp). Black pearl (1200 gp). Tourmaline (80 gp). Brown-green garnet (80 gp). Carnelian (80 gp). White pearl (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears baggy tan pantaloons and a black scarf. He is portly but not overly obese. His crest is rusty, silky, and of moderate length. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He will rave to anyone who will listen. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. A gifted student he started as a Shepherd, but he got bored and became a Beggar. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 4 years.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and he is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Flaws: Insane, Secretive. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Job. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 4000 cp. Lapis lazuli (10 gp). Red-brown spinel (80 gp).

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his rapier with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. He has dyed his greying white hair a little too much giving a sharp white color. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: Thomas hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his writing career. He never wears the same outfit twice, unless he absolutely has to.

History: A child with a great deal of writing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. His father disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his father, he was betrayed dozens of times. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent father; and to find somewhere to settle down

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 200 gp. Freshwater pearl (14 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.