Description: He wears a worn and beaten armor, and he perpetually has his sai ready. He sports a flattop hair cut. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

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 is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: Born in the south to a Courier, Bertram learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. He worked as a nervous Courier and found it very stressful. He's also a talented Architect, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Courier responsibilities is difficult; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Fighting, Persistence, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 700 gp. Moonstone (70 gp).

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy red stubble. He wears a blue small hat and blue clothes. He has a hunchback. His red hair is still thick. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. Heian 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: He was born at the edge of vast mountains. His mother disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his mother, he was betrayed dozens of times. He has since married many spouses, only to have them die. He claims to not be responsible.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Nature, In love, Job. Occupation: Knight

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 3000 gp. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This man tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. His hair is auburn, silky, and of moderate length. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his violet eyes.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. Despite his manner, he is extremely passionate and proud of his job, and he prides himself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: Patrick lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a daughter. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Bookbinder they were divorced and he won custody of their daughter. He worked as a Shipwright, and he later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: He feels kind of lost in life; and wants to open a new tavern

Flaws: Insane, Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Family, In love. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 70 gp.

Description: A stocky darker skinned man, he prefers to wear black clothing when he does not wear armor. He wears a top hat to hide his balding. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He is ready at a moment's notice to give into his darker urges. He is a real pyromaniac and does not care who the fire hurts. He often ends up burning people alive in the fires he starts.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. 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 routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent father; and he is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Sensitive, Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 900 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: His right side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. His fur is cut close to his head. His eyes are amber.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. A fanatic, his devotion to his small selection of gods is unquestionable. He claims to be doing their will and will base all his actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He used his abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: He loathes his own lifestyle; and he has decided he is irredeemable

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Religious, Military, Criminal record. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 400 pp. Jeweled gold crown (7000 gp). Solid gold idol (500 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (100 gp). A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (90 gp). 1 Minor magic item.