Description: He wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with broad hat. His hair is cut close to his head. His blue eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He exudes charisma. He is a tour de force of persuasion. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when giants swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of freemasons.

Motivation: Revenge; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Flaws: Addict, Secretive. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Chain shirt.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He dresses like a well dressed Apothecary does. His blonde hair is matted, messy, and big. His brown eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: When he was but 5 years old his parents immigrated from the east. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Religious. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 30 pp.

Description: This late middle aged man typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep pastel leather and dull blue iron scale mail and is in decent physical shape. He has no hair. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are hazel.

Personality: He is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends he is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy himself. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Jeweler but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: Bertram was born the youngest of three triplets. He was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and meet up once more with his childhood friend

Ideals: Joker, Pacifist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: This man wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with green lining and desert motifs. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. His auburn hair is long and unkept. His gray eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Aldous will drive conversation. He is ready at a moment's notice to give into his darker urges. He is a real pyromaniac and does not care who the fire hurts. He often ends up burning people alive in the fires he starts.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Aldous grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Aldous. He left for the west, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Criminal record, Immigrant. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 300 gp. Golden yellow topaz (200 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking eastern young adult. He wears violet painted combat armor at almost all times. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His blonde hair, when down, is lengthy. He has a dull look in his blue eyes.

Personality: He has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Laborer who has hired him part-time. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: Alexandre was born in the east. At a young age he loved to build and create. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He has gone from town to town working and never settling down anywhere, but has fallen for a local Fortune-teller. He hasn't told them the truth, but wants to settle down with them.

Motivation: To settle down with his crush; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Ideals: Optimist, Persistence. Bonds: Slave, Has a crush. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 300 gp.