Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He wears a brown cloak and cross-gartered tan stockings. His black hair is knotted and matted. He has gleaming, smiling gray eyes.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He refers to his adoptive mother 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: Manfred was born into a poor family. Growing up, he dreamt of becoming a Aristocrat, to bring honor to his family’s name. When he came of age, he applied for a position with his town's local guard, looking to work his way up via merit and eventually become a Aristocrat in service of a powerful lord somewhere. His childhood dream was to be a Engraver, but he was a colossal failure. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and meet up once more with his childhood friend

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Family, Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 1000 gp.

Description: He has a missing right arm. He is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. He keeps his long silver hair kept up in a rat tail. His brown eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: This man loves writing and to teach people writing more than just about anything. He passes on several rewards to people in need. He makes a point to leave places better than he found them.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the east. He has had some formal writing training, and achieved minor success. He used his abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Ideals: Artistic, Philantrophist. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 2400 sp.

Description: This tall, slender man wears a tan coat over a blue low-cut shirt, and a Stetson hat upon his head. His Stetson hat is riddled with cuts and holes. His eyes are amber and beady.

Personality: He is a very philanthropic person; he spends his free time working at various soup kitchens. He plays an instrument quite well.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He now spends his time doing works of charity.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and retire the richest man in the east

Ideals: Philantrophist, Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 300 gp. Fiery yellow corundum (1600 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He has a large white mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into his red robe. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. He wears a broad hat to hide his balding. His half smiles and amber eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with his opinion, he thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, he can get violently argumentative. He is fiercely devoted to his father, and views his father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-sister.

History: He was born in a small desert village. He was one of the best in his class, and was picked up by his current employer. He quickly showed his capability and was soon promoted to a head role. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Knight they were divorced and he won custody of their son. He worked as a Architect, and he later adopted a second son.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Opinionated. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Nature, Job. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy brown stubble. He wears suspenders and blue workpants. His shirt is white, and he wears a heavy blue leather apron most of the time. He has a hunchback. His brown hair and beard is wavy and long. His eyes are likewise violet. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered painting. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and he is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Forgetful. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 50 pp. Iolite (20 gp).