Description: With black face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he has the majority of his body covered in plate. His brown hair is cut short. His eyes are violet and catlike.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. He will often invite strangers home for dinner and talk their ears off. He cares deeply for his spouse and does his best to make sure his guests look presentable.

History: His necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. Some 4 years later his spouse died after the birth of his daughter. Heartbroken, Shaká never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his daughter whom he trained as his father had trained him before.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love.

Ideals: Gifted, Optimist. Bonds: In love, Rich. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 80 gp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: He is in excellent shape and wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. His brown hair is heavily combed to the left. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines brown.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. In his 20th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He is greedy; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Sensitive, Fearful. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 2000 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is very fat, and does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. His red hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. His violet eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Justin embodies much of what other species detest in the Humans. He claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day he will do what he thinks is right.

History: He comes from a rich eastern family. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Mentor. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 100 sp. A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (160 gp).

Description: This exceptionally lanky man wears long strands of sapphire and short green dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. His auburn hair is knotted and matted. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: Quiet and reserved he prefers to listen than to talk. He will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: Paelias was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Like his mother and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Barkeep. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insomniac, Shy. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Breastplate.

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. His hair is dark red, silky, and of moderate length. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He does not mind isolation but does not hate company and attempts to receive them as best as possible.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. 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. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Ideals: Athletic, Persistence, Extrovert. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: Onyx (20 gp). Chalcedony (20 gp). Onyx (20 gp). Jade (60 gp).