Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty grey coat over it. His red hair is matted, messy, and big. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He is a Cook first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He pushes his goals aggressively. He is also a coward if confronted.

History: Trained by his father for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. His parents divorced when he was young, and his father gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his father, who blamed him for driving them apart. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Cook.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and he is wracked by social anxiety

Flaws: Ugly, Fearful, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Military. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 300 gp. Jet (160 gp). Chalcedony (40 gp).

Description: A middle-aged man, he is dressed in a clean violet cloak covering his clean studded leather, and is pretty ugly. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy red hair. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. He is cautious and jumpy. He reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: He was born into a rich family. In his 13th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his father impaled in their home, and his mother 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: Money/treasure; and he is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Disease, Fearful. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 6000 sp. Jeweled anklet (3000 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1100 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp).

Description: A 6'2" southern man, he wears just a black suit. His chestnut hair is singed and shortened. He has gleaming, smiling amber eyes.

Personality: He has schizophrenia that causes him to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. He is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: Born in the south to a Shoemaker, Richard learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Shoemaker for the past few years.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and to be a scribe again

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 800 sp. 1 Darkwood Buckler. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Chain shirt.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears baggy green pantaloons and a black scarf. His golden hair is heavily combed to the left. His skin is flawless and his amber eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He also has developed a complete distrust of the Miller profession.

History: The child of western immigrants he idolized his father. 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 Cartwright. He struck the Cartwright job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: Expand his business; and further expansion of business

Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 5000 sp. Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1600 gp). Finely wrought small gold bracelet (60 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (40 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1600 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: This man wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. His golden hair is lengthy. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He receives visions of the future at random moments

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. His family was turned out during the war. He and his family wandered west to less war torn lands. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down; and he seems to be bored by most things

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted. Flaws: Mundane, PTSD. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: 100 gp. Red spinel (120 gp). Lapis lazuli (16 gp). Eye agate (16 gp).