Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with top hat. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He trusts no one. He is not readily capable for forgiveness and his ire never leaves him. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: He comes from a rich western family. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He has never given up on his writing dream.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and money/treasure

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic, Insomniac. Bonds: Rich, Slave. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). His feathered hat is riddled with cuts and holes. His green eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He is cautious and jumpy. He reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: Gifted from a young age, Hugh studied abroad. His psionic abilities were realized during a raid on his village. 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

Ideals: Professionalism, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Addict, Fearful. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: This man stands a little under 6'5" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He is typically in his Map Maker uniform. His long blonde hair reaches down to his waist. His eyes are likewise blue.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. While he appears to be a normal Human, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. Recently the stress of being a Map Maker has made it difficult for him to sleep.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC.

Flaws: Antagonistic, Insane, Insomniac. Bonds: Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 80 pp. Freshwater pearl (7 gp).

Description: This northern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty brown coat over it. His silver hair is long and unkept. His violet eyes peer out from beneath his wide-brimmed brown hat.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Butcher born in the past three hundred years. To his fellows he is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. His mother was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Enemies, Mentor. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 30 pp. Star ruby (900 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1400 gp). Chrysoprase (70 gp).

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He very much looks the part of a Merchant. His auburn hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: Gerald was born the youngest of three triplets. After coming to the age of reason, Gerald took it upon himself to study the martial arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Merchant responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Sensitive. Bonds: Job, Attractive, Family. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 15000 sp.