Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He typically wears violet cloth garments or leather armor. He has a long auburn beard with little hanging trinkets. His eyes are hazel and catlike.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He works hard and plays hard.

History: Oppleby lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and he loathes his own lifestyle

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Depressed, Hedonist. Bonds: Family, Job. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 1000 gp. Amethyst (80 gp). Malachite (14 gp). Aquamarine (200 gp). Smoky quartz (40 gp). Iolite (40 gp). Red-brown spinel (80 gp). White opal (1000 gp). Lapis lazuli (14 gp). Eye agate (14 gp). Brown-green garnet (80 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (14 gp). Blue quartz (14 gp). Golden yellow topaz (200 gp). White opal (1000 gp). Silver pearl (80 gp).

Description: Runty and weak-looking, he wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. He has dyed his greying brown fur a little too much giving a sharp brown color. His ears are large.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. He passes on several rewards to people in need. He makes a point to leave places better than he found them.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. Cursed with unlife at a very young age, Five has worked very hard to control his curse. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister; and retire the richest man in the east

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 6000 cp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: He has a missing right leg. He wears a blue tunic with brown highlights, and long blue pants that bunch up around his shoes. He wears his golden hair down. His blue eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic man, Varis's first love is himself. His second love is also himself. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: Trained by his mother for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He struck the Spice Merchant job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: Expand his business; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Ideals: Impeccable, Justice. Bonds: Military, Job, Slave. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: This man likes to wear ponchos typically of a light brown in addition to tight pants. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized jet on his left hand. His rusty crest is braided into rings. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He has two modes he varies between. On the job he is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job he is a party animal. He invented a lineage for himself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: Nykkan was born in the north. At a young age he loved to build and create. When the war came and ruined his parents he was left adrift. He was a hard man then and has only learned to fight more as time goes on. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Stylist for the past few years.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and he is greedy

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Insane, PTSD. Bonds: Rich, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Stylist

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

Possessions: 6000 sp. Aquamarine (1000 gp). Deep green spinel (110 gp). Red garnet (110 gp). Jasper (20 gp).

Description: He is a physically imposing dark-skinned man. He wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty grey coat over it. He has shaved his head bald. He has gleaming, smiling green eyes.

Personality: He likes to fabricate stories about his past exploits and how crazy he is, but in actuality he is rather bland. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. Cursed with unlife at a very young age, Thorin has worked very hard to control his curse. 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: To end his boredom; and to get a good night's sleep

Flaws: Ugly, Mundane, Insomniac, Disease. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 160 gp. Rhodochrosite (16 gp).