Description: He is scrawny and has patchy red stubble. He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. He has a hunchback. His red hair is singed and shortened. His ears are large.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. Energy wise he seems alert and responsive.

History: He was born into a rich family. A serious injury left his mother unemployed and in need of constant care. His family became saddled with debt trying to care for his infirm mother. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Rich, Debt. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 200 gp. Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (50 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (500 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp).

Description: He is lean but muscular and wears dark leathers with embroidery. He wears his red hair up. His eyes are green and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his music with anyone who is interested.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a son. He has never given up on his music dream.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and to unite with his sister

Ideals: Justice, Artistic. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Family, In love. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 100 gp. Deep blue spinel (300 gp). Star ruby (800 gp).

Description: He wears bulky black painted plate armor. He keeps his golden hair in a flapper bob. His eyes are likewise gray. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. His brief stint in the army gave him the idea he was invincible and that he is the toughest man alive.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Actor for the past few years.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and balancing his hectic life and new actor responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Military, Rich. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 400 gp. Smoky quartz (50 gp). 1 Darkwood Buckler. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: He is an average looking eastern male in his early mid-life. He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. He keeps his golden hair in a pixie cut. His brown eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He seems absolutely devoid of it. He stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. He pushes his goals aggressively. He is also a coward if confronted.

History: He was born in a small mountains village. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. He's also a talented Bounty Hunter, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: To unite with his sister; and further expansion of business

Flaws: Mundane, Fearful. Bonds: Nature, Job, Family. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: Violet garnet (500 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This tall, slender man is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. He wears a deerstalker hat to cover his moderate length golden hair. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. 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 is greedy; and he is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Insane, Disease. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 400 gp.