Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a chocolate of some kind. He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his lance with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt, marred by chocolates. His tied-back hair is silver. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep brown.

Personality: He is a Sailor first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. When he was little, his rather wealthy family often ventured across the forest to a summer home near a ruined castle. He would wander through that ruined castle and adventure through it for days. One day while adventuring a terrible storm took place and he was stranded inside. His family spent the next few days looking for him, and could only assume he was dead when it came time to leave. The family never returned to the forest due to the painful memories there. Richard took refuge in the ruined castle and found the beat up lance and armor he uses now. He's also a talented Engraver, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Military, Nature. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 50 pp. Malachite (8 gp). Alexandrite (1100 gp). Lapis lazuli (8 gp). White pearl (60 gp). Chalcedony (40 gp). Aquamarine (1100 gp). Rose (40 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Butcher. He has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. He has done his best to style his brown hair to look like a famous performer. His eyes are violet and beady.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the south. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Butcher but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Butcher.

Motivation: Revenge; and he is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Religious, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 600 gp. Peridot (20 gp). Alexandrite (600 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears a grey cloak and cross-gartered red stockings. He wears his red hair up in a very large beehive style do. His blue eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: His druidic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. A serious injury left his father unemployed and in need of constant care. His family became saddled with debt trying to care for his infirm father. He eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

Motivation: To protect his home; and he made a deal with a demon which lead to his current lot in life, and he's becoming increasingly nervous about it

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Poor, Guardian, Debt. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 1100 gp. Citrine (80 gp). Chalcedony (80 gp). Moss agate (16 gp). Blue quartz (16 gp).

Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright brown and green, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. He has red hair. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his gray eyes.

Personality: He likes to fabricate stories about his past exploits and how crazy he is, but in actuality he is rather bland. 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: Born in the east to a Mortician, Alex learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Mortician. After a long history of fighting, Alex and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Mortician responsibilities is difficult; and money/treasure

Flaws: Mundane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Religious, Job. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: Hematite (11 gp).

Description: His skin is bronze and flawless. He wears a grey coat over a green low-cut shirt, and a feathered hat upon his head. He is an epitome of beauty. His auburn hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. He has gray eyes and a grey hat with a green feather.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the west. He refers to his adoptive mother for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. His mother disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his mother, he was betrayed dozens of times. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Courier and was forced into it by his family.

Ideals: Pacifist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Healer’s kit. 1 Superior lock. 1 Superior lock.