Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he wears a tight fitting yellow shirt and pants. He has a long blonde beard with little hanging trinkets. His eyes are amber and catlike.

Personality: He has two modes he varies between. On the job he is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job he is a party animal. He is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. He is searching for what he claims is his rightful reward.

Motivation: He doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes; and obtaining odd cultural human artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Logical, Impeccable. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A man of a pale complexion, he is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing brown cape and mantle trimmed with soft blue waves gently in the breeze. He wears his blonde hair up. His violet eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. 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 is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. 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 Layabout. He's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Layabout responsibilities is difficult; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Rich, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 210 pp. Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (100 gp). Carved bone or ivory statuette (40 gp).

Description: He wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with deerstalker hat. He carries with him a set of ceremonial daggers on his belt, each one with a amethyst on the hilt. His hair is long and golden with streaks of black, and is pulled back with small blue clips. His beard is black, braided, and well cared for. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines violet.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He disdains his fellow easterners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and he is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Fighting, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This malnourished man wears a brown broad hat and brown clothes. His blonde hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. He has a dull look in his hazel eyes.

Personality: This man loves poetry and to teach people poetry more than just about anything. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: His necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Soapmaker and was forced into it by his family; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted, Logical. Bonds: Poor, Job, Family. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 1900 gp. Carnelian (70 gp). Banded agate (13 gp). Citrine (70 gp). Zircon (70 gp). Iolite (70 gp). Freshwater pearl (13 gp). Freshwater pearl (13 gp). Freshwater pearl (13 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. His hair is always cut to a buzz. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are violet.

Personality: Here is a man who knows he is the smartest in the room. He talks down to others constantly. Flattery will make him almost putty in your hands.

History: Shane was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Being born in the west, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the west for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way south. He has worked as a Bather like his father before him.

Motivation: To unite with his sister; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Poor, Job, Family. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 6000 sp. Azurite (9 gp). Alexandrite (1600 gp). Deep blue spinel (1600 gp). 2 Smokesticks.