Description: He sports brown clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. His hair is white, silky, and of moderate length. His half smiles and blue eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. 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: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. At some point he was captured by dire rats and was tortured. After several years of this he finally managed to escape. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge.

Ideals: Joker, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Slave, Enemies. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: He is an average looking northern male in his early mid-life. He dresses in brown turtlenecks beneath a grey coat with white slacks. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His violet eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: Theren was raised in a hard working conservative environment. After coming to the age of reason, Theren took it upon himself to study the martial arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Gifted, Logical, Fighting. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 1000 sp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of his veins is visible when he is not flexing. His shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for him due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. He has moderate length purple hair. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: Damakos is a sociable creature first and foremost. He loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. He can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. 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 raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Slave Trader arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Being born in the west, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the west for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way south. 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: Wants to raise his children well; and doesn't want to be a slave trader and was forced into it by his family

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Extrovert. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Rich. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 2200 gp. Deep blue spinel (300 gp). Alexandrite (300 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (13 gp). Black pearl (300 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (13 gp). Hematite (13 gp). White pearl (60 gp). Brown-green garnet (60 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty violet coat over it. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized ruby on his left hand. His hair is red and very short. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He trusts no one. He is not readily capable for forgiveness and his ire never leaves him. He takes great joy in being the best Detective in town.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Job, Religious. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 1600 gp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (800 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1800 gp).

Description: This man dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His hair, while still mostly red, has prominent grey streaks. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He is underhanded and not above using his wealth and body to get others to do his bidding.

History: Gifted from a young age, Dain studied abroad. His mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He guards a vault combo very seriously as well as the key needed to open it.

Motivation: Revenge; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 340 gp. Chalcedony (50 gp). Brown-green garnet (160 gp). Lapis lazuli (4 gp).