Description: This man is very fat, and is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright red and blue, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His eyes are black and catlike.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. He uses divination through singing.

History: He was born at the edge of vast island. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Spice Merchant. Recently a tribe of dire rats attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Mantus fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He is greedy.

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Nature, Job. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 600 gp. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Chain shirt.

Description: An older man who is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing brown cape and mantle trimmed with soft yellow waves gently in the breeze, he is not a threatening figure. He keeps his black hair in a flapper bob. His eyes are likewise violet. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. He will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious western family, he was no stranger to responsibility. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Religious. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 900 gp. Jet (70 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1500 gp). Chalcedony (40 gp). Red spinel (70 gp).

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears tan painted combat armor at almost all times. His green crest is smooth and relatively long. His fierce gold eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: Calm and collected, he is a well trained Sculptor. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: When he was but 7 years old his parents immigrated from the north. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He left for the north, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Expand his business.

Flaws: Secretive, Depressed. Bonds: Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 300 gp. Silver pearl (70 gp). Pink pearl (70 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a pot bellied southern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears bulky brown painted plate armor. His blonde hair is long and unkept. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is a very philanthropic person; he spends his free time working at various soup kitchens. Khrosh is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his sisters into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: Khrosh was born the youngest of three triplets. Being born in the south, 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 south 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 north. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister.

Ideals: Athletic, Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 600 gp. Golden pearl (80 gp). Blue sapphire (1500 gp).

Description: His right side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He wears a green tunic with brown highlights, and long green pants that bunch up around his shoes. His silver hair and beard is wavy and long. His eyes are gray and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is curt in most of his responses. He prefers to keep his word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. He has a habit of throwing himself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: To end his boredom.

Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Insane, Impulsive, Mundane. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 400 pp. Chalcedony (60 gp). Black opal (1100 gp). Rich purple corundum (1100 gp). Obsidian (5 gp). Amethyst (110 gp). Carnelian (60 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (5 gp).