Description: A middle-aged man, he wears a tight fitting yellow shirt and pants, and is pretty ugly. His hair is brown and curly. His hazel eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

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. A true patriot, Gardain would do anything for his country. He is fiercely protective of his fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: A powerful slaver made him what he is. Like his mother and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Animal Trainer. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Expand his business; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Military, Mentor, Job. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 700 gp.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears professional attire. He has done his best to style his white hair to look like a famous performer. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He has schizophrenia that causes him to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. 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: He comes from a rich southern family. Being born in the south, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the south for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way north. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: To unite with his sister; and marry his sister to traveling adventurers

Flaws: Insane, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Rich. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 6000 cp. 1 Silk rope.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. His hair, while still mostly black, has prominent grey streaks. He has several tiny ruby earrings on each ear.

Personality: This man loves singing and to teach people singing more than just about anything. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: Akmen was born with his mother's beautiful face. He was taken from his home at a very young age. 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: He is greedy.

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Religious, Slave. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 1200 gp. Jeweled anklet (1000 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (170 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (4000 gp). Jeweled anklet (1000 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is an average looking northern male in his early mid-life. He wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt. His hair is cut close to his head. His red eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic man, Andram's first love is himself. His second love is also himself. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He has recently attracted an admirer that believes he's playing hard to get.

Motivation: To unite with his sister; and he would like to get married and retire

Ideals: Impeccable, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Has a crush, Family. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: This man is tall and muscular. He has the majority of his body covered in plate. His fur is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his copper eyes.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. He also has developed a complete distrust of the Apothecary profession.

History: Edge was born with his mother's beautiful face. Like his mother and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Jeweler. He now owns his own business.

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

Ideals: Athletic, Joker. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 500 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.