Description: 6'2" and muscular, this western man wears blue trousers with brown and green striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. He is bald on top and has large chestnut tufts of hair around his ears. He has several tiny amber earrings on each ear.

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 has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: When he was but 8 years old his parents immigrated from the west. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. 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: Money/treasure; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Athletic, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 60 pp. Banded agate (13 gp). Blue quartz (13 gp). Moss agate (13 gp). Azurite (13 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (13 gp).

Description: He has a missing right arm. He is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. He sports a flattop hair cut. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the east. He is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Marbas was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Marbas decided he wanted neither the life of his mother nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: He is content.

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 200 pp. Solid gold idol (800 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1100 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (70 gp). Jeweled gold crown (4000 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (70 gp). A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (70 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (70 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1200 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (70 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (70 gp). Finely wrought small gold bracelet (70 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (70 gp). Jeweled anklet (1000 gp). Jeweled gold crown (4000 gp). Gold music box (1000 gp). Finely wrought small gold bracelet (70 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (70 gp). Jeweled anklet (1000 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1100 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1100 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: 5'7" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He wears a blue coat over a violet low-cut shirt, and a broad hat upon his head. He has a long brown beard with little hanging trinkets. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He is irritable and easily angered. He is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use his stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. He takes great joy in being the best Interpreter in town.

History: Born to a Carter, his father struggled to pay the bills. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother 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. He has been saving his money to try and buy his sister's freedom.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC.

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Poor, Family. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 160 gp. Bloodstone (60 gp).

Description: This tall, slender man wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with broad hat. He has done his best to style his brown hair to look like a famous performer. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. He cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist he will grow angry at them.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. A freak accident while working with his Dyer mother left him crippled. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Joker, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: In love. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 20 pp. 8 Acid flasks.

Description: He stands about 4'11" and wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. His left hand appears badly burned and disfigured. He has no hair. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. He is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends; and he is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Shy. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 3000 gp. Amber (120 gp). Violet garnet (1200 gp). Emerald (500 gp). Brown-green garnet (120 gp). Tourmaline (120 gp). Peridot (70 gp). Freshwater pearl (15 gp). Rich purple corundum (500 gp). Blue star sapphire (500 gp). 1 Medium magic item.