Description: A stocky lighter skinned man, he wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized blue coat. His white hair is heavily combed to the left. His amber unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with painting. He constantly tries to fill his life with painting. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. Hugh was born on a far western plains where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Junk Dealer. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: He would like to get married and retire; and he seems to be bored by most things

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Disease, Shy. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 200 gp. Red spinel (70 gp).

Description: Standing 5'2", this man wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). His white hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. This violet eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: Hugh is depressed about a lot of things. He tends to be a nihilist. 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: Hugh hails from a village terrorized by goblins. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Laborer for the past few years.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Enemies, Job. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing black cape and mantle trimmed with soft grey waves gently in the breeze. He has shaved his head bald. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. 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: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform 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: Money/treasure; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Persistence. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Attractive, Slave. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what he was had he not made sure his armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit he wears a tattered pair of loose white pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. His hair is red and curly. He has hazel eyes and a white hat with a black feather.

Personality: He acts crazy and hedonistic. 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: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Roland was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Poor, Mentor. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is tall and muscular. He wears professional attire. His hair is cut close to his head. His gray eyes peer out from beneath his broad black hat.

Personality: He thrives on attention. He does whatever is in his power to gain the attention of whomever he deems a fit date. He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: Roland was born the youngest of three triplets. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well.

Ideals: Athletic. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Family, Rich. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: Chrysoprase (20 gp).