Description: Runty and weak-looking, he wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with small hat. He has a long white beard with little hanging trinkets. His amber eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He seems absolutely devoid of it. He stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. 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: He was born on a small isolated farm. He was a friend to animals and a trickster. In his defense of animals however he would do severe harm to people. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down; and retire the richest man in the east

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Poor, Nature. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: This man wears dark leathers with embroidery. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized ruby on his left hand. His hair, while still mostly silver, has prominent grey streaks. His ears are large.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He receives visions of the future at random moments

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Mortician arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. 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.

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Nature. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he is wearing a long, blue, dusty cloak. His blonde hair is knotted and matted. His green eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He has schizophrenia that causes him to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. Flattery will make him almost putty in your hands.

History: Simon was born with his father's beautiful face. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He has recently attracted an admirer that believes he's playing hard to get.

Motivation: Wants a kiss.

Flaws: Disease, Selfish. Bonds: Attractive, Has a crush. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: A moderately attractive man, he wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). His auburn hair is smooth and relatively long. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He has two modes he varies between. On the job he is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job he is a party animal. He has all his life been fascinated with dancing.

History: He was born in the east, but his parents moved at a very young age to the west. Being born in the east, 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 east 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 moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Guard and was forced into it by his family; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 400 gp. Golden pearl (110 gp). Banded agate (8 gp). Golden yellow topaz (600 gp).

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears a brown vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His green leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his brown boots flare out at the collars. He wears a feathered hat to hide his balding. He has gray eyes.

Personality: Simon is a sociable creature first and foremost. He loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. He can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: He was raised in a island tribe. 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 has passion for adventuring and risk; and to reunite with his old friends

Ideals: Extrovert, Professionalism. Bonds: Nature, Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 140 pp. Solid gold idol (1200 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1300 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.