Description: He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his hand crossbow with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. He carries with him a set of hand crossbows on his belt, each one with a opal on the hilt. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His eyes are likewise green. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. More though he will beg to come along on any journeys. He will attempt to stowaway on any ship he can in the hopes that it will get him further away.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. Raymond abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature hand crossbow.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and obtaining odd cultural human artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Slave, Military, Adventurer. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 800 gp. Red-brown spinel (70 gp). Sardonyx (20 gp). Rhodochrosite (5 gp).

Description: This exceptionally lanky man wears a worn and beaten armor. He has styled his black hair well, parting it to the right. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He is a Soapmaker first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. 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: His martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. 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 west. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister; and to reunite with his absent father

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 80 pp.

Description: A plain young-adult man, he wears white leather gloves, a white jacket, and tight pants. He wears a deerstalker hat to hide his balding. His hazel eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. 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. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He has worked as a Fisher like his father before him.

Motivation: Human compassion; and retire the richest man in the south

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Athletic. Flaws: Secretive, Racist. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 400 gp. Brown-green garnet (130 gp). Azurite (14 gp). Bloodstone (60 gp). 1 Half-Plate. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: Standing 5'6", this man wears long strands of jet and short white dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. His hair is short and chestnut. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He trusts no one. He is not readily capable for forgiveness and his ire never leaves him. He disdains his fellow westerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: He was raised by priests from a young age. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Humans in the west were limited. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He is greedy.

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 5000 sp.

Description: He is a pot bellied eastern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears long strands of jet and short black dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. He sports a flattop hair cut. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He exudes charisma. He is a tour de force of persuasion. He does not mind isolation but does not hate company and attempts to receive them as best as possible.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Masseuse arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. 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: Athletic, Extrovert. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Rich, Attractive. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 2000 sp. 1 Crowbar. 1 Average lock. 1 Average lock.