Description: He prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. His tied-back hair is auburn. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He seems absolutely devoid of it. He stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. 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: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: To end his boredom; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Rich, Slave, Job. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 500 gp. Bloodstone (40 gp). Malachite (12 gp). Alexandrite (1100 gp). Blue star sapphire (900 gp).

Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a sweet of some kind. He wears tattered old clothes, marred by sweets. He wears a small hat to hide his balding. His blue eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. He is fiercely devoted to his mother, and views his mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-sister.

History: He was born in the north, but his parents moved at a very young age to the east. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent mother; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Immigrant, Slave. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a mite stocky and wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with brown lining and desert motifs. His silver hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. His half smiles and blue eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: Heir to a fortune, his parents put a great deal of effort into curing his disease. His mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He is greedy; and he uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs

Ideals: Persistence, Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 500 gp. A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (60 gp). Solid gold idol (600 gp).

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what he was had he not made sure his armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit he has the majority of his body covered in plate. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy red hair. His eyes are likewise violet. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. He was an adventurer many years ago and he formed a blood bond with his Human companion (his 'brother'). In his journeys he found a malevolent artifact. He wishes to return this artifact and its corrupting influence back to where it came.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and he desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 6000 sp. Onyx (50 gp). Deep green spinel (50 gp). Eye agate (7 gp). Red garnet (50 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A man of a pale complexion, he wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with black lining and desert motifs. His black hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. He has a dull look in his green eyes.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Randal is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. Randal liked to wander the woods near his home when he was young, something he still likes to do at least once a week. He never liked modest clothing or shoes, so he would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and he developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. He has been saving his money to try and buy his brother's freedom.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and doesn't want to be a farmer and was forced into it by his family

Ideals: Justice, Athletic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Nature, Family. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 100 gp. A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (150 gp). Carved bone or ivory statuette (50 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (500 gp).