Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His chestnut hair is singed and shortened. His eyes are likewise brown. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic man, Gerard's first love is himself. His second love is also himself. He constantly seizes attention wherever he goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. He likes to think of himself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. His father was very strict, and drilled into him lessons on being the perfect gentleman. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Masseuse for the past few years.

Motivation: He feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world; and expand his business

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 6000 sp. Obsidian (4 gp). Amber (60 gp). Iolite (50 gp). Red-brown spinel (60 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: 5'2" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He has the majority of his body covered in plate. He sports a flattop hair cut. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Barkeep born in the past three hundred years. He loves teas. He is very sensitive about his face. To blow off anger he lifts weights and to control his otherwise explosive temper he works out a lot.

History: When he was but 3 years old his parents immigrated from the west. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. He has achieved small success as a Barkeep.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: This fat eastern man has a bulbous nose and typically wears brown cloth garments or leather armor. His skin is also unnaturally pale. He wears a feathered hat to hide his balding. He has gleaming, smiling amber eyes.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. Shane enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: His arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His parents divorced when he was young, and his father gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his father, who blamed him for driving them apart. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He loathes his own lifestyle; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Hedonist, Depressed. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 1000 gp.

Description: He wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. He carries a battered nunchaku and tarnished hammer as well. His blonde hair has been sun bleached extensively. His eyes are likewise green.

Personality: He has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Courier who has hired him part-time. He also hits on women, regardless of circumstances.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He inherited a moderately successful company from his mother. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: Marry his brother to traveling adventurers; and money/treasure

Ideals: Fighting, Persistence. Bonds: Has a crush, Rich, Family. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He is lean but muscular and wears bulky grey painted plate armor. His moppish silver hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. A friendly and beautiful Human, he is rarely seen without a few beauties around his arms. Though a playboy in all rights, he is no lame duck.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Bookbinder arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Ostracized due to the druidic powers of his oldest sister, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Humans became a terror of the countryside. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 20000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.