Description: Standing 5'4", this man tends to wear a large black jacket. His long auburn hair reaches down to his waist. His eyes are gray and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He acts crazy and hedonistic. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: Born in the north to a Architect, Shag learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. 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 inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 4 years.

Motivation: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help; and he is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Flaws: Hedonist, Forgetful. Bonds: Job, Mentor, Criminal record. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 600 gp. Deep blue spinel (500 gp). Smoky quartz (40 gp). Onyx (40 gp). Iolite (40 gp). Black opal (600 gp). Golden yellow topaz (500 gp).

Description: This younger middle-aged man is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright red and tan, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems, and a wedding ring on his right hand. His hair is always cut to a buzz. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: Nim is depressed about a lot of things. He tends to be a nihilist. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Seeks redemption; and his religion dominates his actions

Flaws: Depressed, Ugly. Bonds: Rich, In love, Religious, Criminal record. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 19000 cp.

Description: He is of a modest build and height, but he carries himself more imposing than he is. He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing blue cape and mantle trimmed with soft red waves gently in the breeze. His hair is brown and curly. His eyes are amber and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends he is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy himself. He is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. In his 15th year, his parents were killed by a brigands raid, leaving John alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He would ruin relationships and cause injury. He was reprimanded several times before being given his current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: He wants revenge against brigands; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Joker. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record, Mentor, Enemies. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 2000 sp. Black pearl (1300 gp). Jasper (70 gp). Obsidian (6 gp). Blue quartz (6 gp).

Description: This eastern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He is wearing a long, brown, dusty cloak. His moppish red hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His eyes are a pleasant amber.

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. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Igden is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: He is a Lamia in disguise. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality.

Ideals: Persistence, Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Nature. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 500 gp. Brown-green garnet (160 gp). Black star sapphire (500 gp). Silver pearl (160 gp). Chrysoberyl (160 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears a white coat over a green low-cut shirt, and a top hat upon his head. He keeps his long chestnut hair kept up in a rat tail. His half smiles and brown eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He is stubborn though. He always likes to keep a trick up his sleeve. He likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if he feels he even has a chance of losing.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the south. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Kyle grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Kyle. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Poor. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 1100 pp. An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (180 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (180 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (180 gp).