Description: He wears a fancy grey suit. His black hair and beard is wavy and long. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

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. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: He was born into a rich family. 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 Bookbinder. He became a Bookbinder soon after.

Motivation: To be a Soapmaker again.

Ideals: Professionalism. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Rich. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. He carries his fan with him everywhere and carries himself as the perfect gentleman, 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. He has moderate length red hair. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. He can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when orcs swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He was granted arcane powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge; and many orcs want him driven away

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted. Bonds: Rich, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears professional attire. His blonde hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. He has several tiny aquamarine earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. He has a cruel streak; something he gained from his previous mentor. He harbors resentment against his former mentor.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. 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.

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Mentor, Military. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 400 gp. Jade (70 gp). Red garnet (70 gp). Aquamarine (900 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He tends to wear a large brown jacket. He has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. His golden hair is braided into rings. He has gleaming, smiling gray eyes.

Personality: Quiet and reserved he prefers to listen than to talk. He will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. The war was a terrible time for him, and Alex does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. He was an apprentice working in his father's forge. He has achieved small success as a Guard.

Motivation: He seems to be bored by most things; and he is greedy

Flaws: Shy, Depressed, Mundane. Bonds: Military, Job, Rich. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 1300 gp.

Description: He is lean but muscular and wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). He wears a Stetson hat to cover his moderate length silver hair. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: Hubert hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his painting career. He is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. Like his father and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Herbalist. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Ideals: Artistic, Logical. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Job. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 500 gp. Freshwater pearl (8 gp). Aquamarine (1000 gp). Chalcedony (50 gp). Deep blue spinel (1000 gp).