Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he wears a brown costume with the symbols of the four houses of cards on his torso. His silver hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. Like his mother and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Sailor. He's also a talented Miner, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: To end his boredom; and further expansion of business

Flaws: Terse, Secretive, Mundane. Bonds: Military, Job. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: He is an average looking southern male in his early mid-life. He wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a brown coat. His silver hair is smooth and relatively long. He has several tiny opal earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Humans.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Human artifacts is his passion; and human compassion

Flaws: Racist, Disease. Bonds: Rich, Guardian, Adventurer. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 2500 sp.

Description: He wears a white tunic with black highlights, and long grey pants that bunch up around his shoes. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. He wears his chestnut hair up in a very large beehive style do. His amber eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. He has a cruel streak; something he gained from his previous mentor. He harbors resentment against his former mentor.

History: Born in the south to a Merchant, Heward learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. Through the years after Heward was born, his mother became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the south. Heward's mother didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Flaws: Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Mentor, Job. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 100 gp. Coral (40 gp). Hematite (9 gp). Bloodstone (80 gp). Alexandrite (800 gp).

Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. He carries his fan with him everywhere and carries himself as the perfect gentleman. His golden hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the south. He is a great chef.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. He inherited a moderately successful company from his mother. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. 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; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Pacifist, Gifted, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 800 sp. Deep green spinel (80 gp). Amber (80 gp). Malachite (12 gp).

Description: This late middle aged man wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle and is in decent physical shape. He sports a flattop hair cut. His hazel eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He acts crazy and hedonistic. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing poetry.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He is greedy; and money/treasure

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Hedonist, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Light wooden shield. 1 Chain shirt. 1 Breastplate.