Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He tends to wear a large grey jacket. He has styled his blonde hair well, parting it to the right. His eyes are a pleasant amber.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. He is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Ernest was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. After coming to the age of reason, Ernest took it upon himself to study the necromantic arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break; and to clean up the streets

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Adventurer, Mentor, Guardian. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic right hand, he prefers to wear flannel. His red hair has been sun bleached extensively. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: Prone to second guessing himself, he comes off as nervous. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: His arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Ideals: Joker, Gifted. Flaws: Insane, Shy. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 120 pp.

Description: He wears silk and lounges about seductively. He is portly but not overly obese. He keeps his chestnut hair in a pixie cut. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. Flattery will make him almost putty in your hands.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. He's also a talented Junk Dealer, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions.

Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Military, Religious. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 100 gp. 3 Thunderstones. 1 Smokesticks. 1 Smokesticks.

Description: He appears as an extremely gaunt Human, and stands approximately 5'9". He dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner, and his gloved hand is found clutching a ceremonial dagger. His moppish golden hair is in a traditional bowl cut. This amber eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He receives visions of the future at random moments

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. A gifted student he started as a Courier, but he got bored and became a Guard. He tends to his Guard job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and he is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Slave. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: This northern man wears tattered old clothes. His clothes are grease stained in places. His white hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady green eyes.

Personality: He is a Crown-heir first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He also has developed a complete distrust of the Sailor profession.

History: He was born in the north, but his parents moved at a very young age to the west. 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 Crown-heir. Recently a tribe of goblins attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Dean fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Expand his business; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: Eye agate (9 gp). Alexandrite (300 gp). Violet garnet (300 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.