Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he wears light armors faded through time and improper care. His white crest is kept up in a ponytail inside a broad hat. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He lacks moral complications. He does what he is told to by employers but not much else. He spends his money on whatever he fancies at the time.

History: He comes from a rich eastern family. His mother was a soldier and died while he was still young. Shamash was left his mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. 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: Sabotage a competitor; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Job, Rich, Military. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 3000 gp. Jasper (80 gp). Moss agate (9 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (9 gp). Banded agate (9 gp). Blue quartz (9 gp). Coral (120 gp). Alexandrite (1200 gp). Azurite (9 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a physically imposing dark-skinned man. He wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). His black hair, when down, is lengthy. His eyes are likewise violet. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He does not care much for physical appearances, nor does he care much for other people. He does however care about what he wants and getting it. He does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for him. He lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: He comes from a rich southern family. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He guards a vault combo very seriously as well as the key needed to open it.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and he has money and likes to spend it

Flaws: Ugly, Secretive. Bonds: Rich, Slave, Job. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 8000 sp.

Description: He is a mite stocky and prefers to wear violet pants and tee shirts. He has moderate length chestnut hair. His green eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. He uses divination through singing.

History: He was born at the edge of vast mountains. He always admired necromantic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and obtaining odd cultural gnomish artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Nature, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 7000 sp.

Description: This tall, slender man prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. He carries his fan with him everywhere and carries himself as the perfect gentleman. His white hair is singed and shortened. His eyes are hazel and catlike.

Personality: The man has a huge range of feeling. He will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how he will be a better person from this day on. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage son.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. 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: Doesn't want to be a Cartwright and was forced into it by his family; and to reunite with his absent father

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Emotional. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 1900 gp. Alexandrite (200 gp). Deep blue spinel (200 gp). Smoky quartz (50 gp). Emerald (1300 gp). Citrine (50 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. He carries with him a set of flails on his belt, each one with a emerald on the hilt. His tied-back hair is red. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are amber.

Personality: This man loves poetry and to teach people poetry more than just about anything. He has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered poetry. Recently a tribe of giants attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Dean fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear.

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Slave. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 500 gp. Alexandrite (200 gp).