Description: He is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Layabout. He is portly but not overly obese. He wears a feathered hat to cover his moderate length auburn hair. He has a tattooed face.

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. The war was a terrible time for him, and Aldous does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. Like his mother and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Layabout. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: To be a Mason again; and balancing his hectic life and new layabout responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Depressed, Antagonistic. Bonds: Military, Job. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Everburning torch.

Description: A middle-aged man, he wears an entirely green suit with brown socks and a vest with buckled shoes, and is pretty ugly. His white hair is smooth and relatively long. This blue eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He considers himself the protector of his home. He feels this is his duty and calling. He works hard and plays hard.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. In his 14th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He is wracked by social anxiety; and he feels threatened by others

Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist, Fearful. Bonds: Guardian, Rich. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 400 gp. 2 Smokesticks. 4 Alchemist’s fire.

Description: He tends to wear a large tan jacket. He has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady gray eyes.

Personality: He has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Interpreter who has hired him part-time. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his singing with anyone who is interested.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He has never given up on his singing dream.

Motivation: To unite with his brother; and wants a kiss

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Has a crush, Family, Mentor, Slave. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 900 gp.

Description: This fat eastern man has a bulbous nose and typically wears yellow cloth garments or leather armor. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His hair is cut close to his head. His violet eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: Alex was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his father was employed at, doing general labor. He worked as a nervous Painter and found it very stressful. He has worked as a Painter like his father before him.

Motivation: He loathes his own lifestyle.

Flaws: Ugly, Depressed, Shy. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy red stubble. He wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. He has a hunchback. He has red hair. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: Hunter was born in the west. At a young age he loved to build and create. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and retire the richest man in the west

Ideals: Persistence, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: Pink pearl (40 gp). 1 Minor magic item.