Description: An older man who is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing black cape and mantle trimmed with soft white waves gently in the breeze, he is not a threatening figure. His golden hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. His eyes are a pleasant gray.

Personality: Aldous hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his writing career. He is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with his old comrades. He has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. His childhood dream was to be a Slave Trader, but he was a colossal failure. He was granted martial powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and to be a slave trader again

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 50 pp. Moonstone (50 gp).

Description: He is a physically imposing light-skinned man. He typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep white leather and dull black iron scale mail. He has a very tight haircut. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is a hateful person. He taunts others and blames them for his problems. He is underhanded and not above using his wealth and body to get others to do his bidding.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. 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 has worked as a Cook like his father before him.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear; and further expansion of business

Flaws: Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Slave, Job. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 2000 sp.

Description: His left side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He wears a yellow deerstalker hat and yellow clothes. He wears his chestnut hair up in a very large beehive style do. He is baby faced.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. 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 was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. As a young child he wandered into the woods despite his mother's warnings against it. Afterwards he claimed he had encountered dire rats who tried to eat his hand. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by dire rats. Diggory was horrified and prayed that his father was alright. However, he heard that his father had died fighting off the dire rats.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and he wants revenge against dire rats

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Enemies, Job. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: Golden pearl (120 gp). Fire opal (600 gp). Golden pearl (120 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt. His golden hair is braided into rings. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing dancing.

History: His martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: He doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes; and he is greedy

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic, Gifted, Impeccable. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (1100 gp).

Description: This exceptionally lanky man tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. He wears his silver hair up. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He is shy and timid. He has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. 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: Lewis was born the youngest of three triplets. A few years later when the east was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of freemasons.

Motivation: He wants revenge against orcs; and marry his sister to traveling adventurers

Flaws: Shy, Secretive. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Minor magic item.