Description: He appears as an extremely gaunt Human, and stands approximately 6'6". He is dressed in a clean black cloak covering his clean studded leather, and his gloved hand is found clutching a halberd. His hair is long and white with streaks of chestnut, and is pulled back with small black clips. His beard is chestnut, braided, and well cared for. He has a dull look in his gray eyes.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk he knows how to make people feel guilty. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: His arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. After coming to the age of reason, Cory took it upon himself to study the arcane arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Religious, Family, Slave. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: This man stands a little under 5'1" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He wears pastel painted combat armor at almost all times. With bright brown hair and a scraggly beard. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. He always admired necromantic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: To end his boredom; and he is content

Ideals: Professionalism, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Masterwork Heavy steel shield. 1 Banded mail.

Description: This man dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head, and sports empty pouches on his belt. With bright brown hair and a scraggly beard. He is baby faced.

Personality: He runs his personal life as if detached from it. He organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits he will get from it. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. His mother was a soldier and died while he was still young. Charles was left his mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. He struck the Unemployed job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and he has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Military, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 500 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

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 is typically in his Marshal uniform. He has dyed his greying red hair a little too much giving a sharp red color. He has gray eyes.

Personality: He is a sleazy, sleazy guy. He has no qualms about using his powers of suggestion to get people to do what he wants. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Manfred grew up listening to his mother's many stories. A serious injury left his mother unemployed and in need of constant care. His family became saddled with debt trying to care for his infirm mother. He tends to his Marshal job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Bonds: Job, Attractive, Adventurer, Debt. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep black leather and dull blue iron scale mail. His brown hair is thinning but still full. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with his opinion, he thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, he can get violently argumentative. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage son.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. Being born in the east, 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 east 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 now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well; and to reunite with his absent father

Ideals: Opinionated, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insane, Mundane. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 3000 sp. Alexandrite (1000 gp). Sardonyx (40 gp). Bloodstone (40 gp). Pink pearl (130 gp).