Description: He prefers to wear flannel, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 5'9" when asserting himself. His black hair is matted, messy, and big. His gray eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. He takes great joy in being the best Herbalist in town.

History: His father raised him in a mountain cabin. In his youth he was a Doctor, and wanted to be a champion fighter when he grew up. He was working during a period of war, and as one of the natives he lived in fear of joining the others in being slaughtered. He saw the brutality and swore off his fighting aspirations, taking his younger brother on his back after seeing his parents die, and fled the country. Recently a tribe of giants attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Richard fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Expand his business.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, PTSD. Bonds: Job, Nature. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: Freshwater pearl (6 gp). Brown-green garnet (120 gp). Bloodstone (60 gp). Jet (120 gp).

Description: A pudgy man standing about 5'8" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He wears just a red suit. His hair, while still mostly brown, has prominent grey streaks. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He snorts whenever he laughs or is feeling confident. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: A child with a great deal of music talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered music. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and obtaining odd cultural human artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Artistic, Logical. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 39000 sp.

Description: He is an average looking southern male in his early mid-life. He wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty green coat over it. He has no hair. He has several tiny opal earrings on each ear.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the south. He takes great joy in being the best Architect in town.

History: He got into the Architect business at a young age. His father was very strict, and drilled into him lessons on being the perfect gentleman. He became a Architect soon after.

Motivation: Expand his business.

Ideals: Pacifist, Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 700 gp.

Description: He stands about 5'10" and wears a grey cloak and cross-gartered tan stockings. His left hand appears badly burned and disfigured. His black hair is still thick. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: Deceptive and manipulative this western guy figured out how to best use his charms to convince people to do what he wants. 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-brother.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 8 years.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent father; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother

Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Job. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Masterwork Artisan’s tools. 1 Masterwork Artisan’s tools.

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 an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. His hair, while still mostly brown, has prominent grey streaks. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. On top of that he is swayed by a pretty face, and while loyalty to his employer will always come first he doesn't like to hit women.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Actor arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. 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 attracted to the PC; and wants his loneliness to end

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Guardian, Has a crush, Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Actor

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 30 pp.