Description: This malnourished man wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with tan lining and desert motifs. His brown hair is lengthy. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the east. He has had some formal painting training, and achieved minor success. He left for the east, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and he is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions

Ideals: Professionalism, Artistic, Logical. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 600 gp.

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He usually wears his tan robe and has his club always slung over his shoulder. His white hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. His eyes are green and beady.

Personality: He has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Spice Merchant who has hired him part-time. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing music.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. He always admired necromantic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He has recently attracted an admirer that believes he's playing hard to get.

Motivation: Wants a kiss; and wants his loneliness to end

Ideals: Artistic, Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Has a crush. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He has a large grey mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into his pastel robe. With bright red hair and a scraggly beard. His hazel eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his writing with anyone who is interested.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious western family, he was no stranger to responsibility. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He has been saving his money to try and buy his sister's freedom.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Disciplined, Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Religious. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 2700 sp.

Description: A man of a pale complexion, 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 hair is short and brown. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his father.

History: He was born in the east. Like his father and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Gardener. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Gardener for hire.

Motivation: Expand his business.

Ideals: Justice, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 600 gp.

Description: He is a mite stocky and is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. He has a very tight haircut. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. 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: Simon was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his father was employed at, doing general labor. 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. Recently a tribe of brigands attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Simon fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Insomniac, Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Poor. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 400 gp.