Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. His hair is silver and very short. His skin is flawless and his brown eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. He has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: He comes from a rich eastern family. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. 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's repulsed by the PC; and he is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Insane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: He is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. His hair is brown and very short. His skin is flawless and his gray eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. Despite his manner, he is extremely passionate and proud of his job, and he prides himself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: He was born in the east. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 15 years.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Fighting, Disciplined. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 100 gp. Hematite (16 gp). Aquamarine (1200 gp). Amethyst (40 gp). Black opal (1500 gp).

Description: 5'3" and muscular, this eastern man is wearing a long, grey cloak. His chestnut hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. He is fiercely devoted to his father, and views his father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-sister.

History: Born in the east to a Brewer, Heward learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. His first spouse was a Fletcher, they had one son, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Revenge; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Shy, Ugly. Bonds: Family, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 2500 sp.

Description: He is in excellent shape and is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest. His moppish white hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His amber eyes are passionate and lively.

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. 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: He was raised in a forest tribe. 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 Baker. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 12 years.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and obtaining odd cultural human artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Athletic, Persistence. Bonds: Religious, Nature, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 100 gp. Sard (30 gp). Malachite (9 gp). Rich purple corundum (400 gp).

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He very much looks the part of a Stableman. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: A deeply religious man he believes everything happens for a reason. Flattery will make him almost putty in your hands.

History: Born in the north to a Stableman, Jocelyn learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. Jocelyn was born on a far northern mountains where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Stableman. He left for the north, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and wants to open a new tavern

Flaws: Insane, Selfish. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Religious. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 700 gp. An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (40 gp). Silver ewer (30 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp).