Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with wide-brimmed hat. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy blonde hair. His brown eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Animal Trainer but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: Trained by his mother for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Animal Trainer for hire.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and someone believes him a fraud

Ideals: Disciplined, Pacifist. Bonds: Military, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears a tan costume with the symbols of the four houses of cards on his torso. His silver hair is still thick. His fierce violet eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He trusts no one. He is not readily capable for forgiveness and his ire never leaves him. He works hard and plays hard.

History: A child with a great deal of writing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. His childhood dream was to be a Bather, but he was a colossal failure. He struck the Dyer job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: He is wracked by social anxiety; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic, Hedonist, Fearful. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a beer of some kind. He wears rags and sports a simple walking cane, marred by beers. His white hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a small hat. His hazel eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends he is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy himself. He also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. While he appears to be a normal Human, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and to prove his worth to the world

Ideals: Joker, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive, Insane. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This slender man stands about 5'8". He prefers to wear green pants and tee shirts. His moppish black hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His eyes are amber and beady.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. Rolf enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: He got into the Stableman business at a young age. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered dancing. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Stableman for the past few years.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Stableman responsibilities is difficult; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Guardian, Job. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 400 gp. Malachite (16 gp). Star rose quartz (30 gp). Sard (30 gp). Black pearl (1000 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is very fat, and dresses like a well dressed Navigator does. His long red hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. He has several tiny ruby earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: Ernest was raised in a hard working conservative environment. 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 Navigator. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Expand his business; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Professionalism, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 200 gp.