Description: He is scrawny and has patchy black stubble. He dresses in pastel turtlenecks beneath a violet coat with brown slacks. He has a hunchback. His black hair is still thick. His eyes are likewise hazel.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. Thomas enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. In his 16th 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 granted divine powers by his dying brother.

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

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist, Fearful. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 1900 gp.

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears many layers of old clothing at all times. His moppish auburn hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His gray eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: Aldous hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his singing career. 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 born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. His father was a soldier and died while he was still young. Aldous was left his father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Addict, Depressed. Bonds: Poor, Military. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 12000 cp.

Description: A 6'3" southern man, he wears brown leather gloves, a brown jacket, and tight pants. He wears his red hair up in a very large beehive style do. He has gleaming, smiling amber eyes.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He refers to his adoptive father for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Stylist arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

Motivation: Many giants want him driven away; and to clean up the streets

Bonds: Job, Family, Rich, Guardian, Enemies. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with broad hat, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His hair, while still mostly golden, has prominent grey streaks. His brown eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with painting. He constantly tries to fill his life with painting. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: When he was but 8 years old his parents immigrated from the north. His father was a soldier and died while he was still young. Hubert was left his father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge; and retire the richest man in the north

Ideals: Artistic, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Immigrant, Military, Enemies. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears many layers of old clothing at all times. He has no hair. His gray unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: The man has a huge range of feeling. He will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how he will be a better person from this day on. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: He was born in a small mountains village. He was a friend to animals and a trickster. In his defense of animals however he would do severe harm to people. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture; and to be a spy again

Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Emotional, Shy. Bonds: Poor, Nature. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 600 gp. 1 Minor magic item.