Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears many layers of old clothing at all times. His brown hair is greasy and uncared for. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He is happy with his job as a Ruler. He turns his eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly.

History: The child of southern immigrants he idolized his father. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and expand his business

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Poor, Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Light steel shield.

Description: Standing 6'4", this man wears dark leathers with embroidery. His green crest is smooth and relatively long. He has several tiny sapphire earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. Valorean enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he is greedy

Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Rich, Guardian, Nature, Immigrant. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 900 gp.

Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a sweet of some kind. He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing red cape and mantle trimmed with soft yellow waves gently in the breeze, marred by sweets. His white hair is still thick. He has brown eyes.

Personality: He speaks before he thinks and is too direct. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: Krimmon lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. 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 brother; and regain custody of his daughter

Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive, Secretive. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 50 pp. Chrysoprase (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He dresses like a well dressed Bookbinder does. His blonde hair is unkempt and raggedy. His green unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Kipper is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Bookbinder for hire.

Motivation: Expand his business.

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Job, Poor. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing grey cape and mantle trimmed with soft pastel waves gently in the breeze. His long gray fur is drawn into a two foot long braid. His blue unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic man, Flask's first love is himself. His second love is also himself. He is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Flask grew up listening to his father's many stories. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: He doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes; and he's looking for his big break

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Disease, Shy. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 400 sp.