Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears many layers of old clothing at all times. His long brown hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His eyes are gray and catlike.

Personality: He considers himself the protector of his home. He feels this is his duty and calling. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing singing.

History: The child of western immigrants he idolized his mother. He has had some formal singing training, and achieved minor success. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: To clean up the streets.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Guardian. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears tattered old clothes. He has dyed his greying white hair a little too much giving a sharp white color. His brown eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: A child with a great deal of poetry talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. 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 has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions; and seeks redemption

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 800 sp. Star ruby (800 gp). Malachite (6 gp). Eye agate (6 gp).

Description: This man is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of his veins is visible when he is not flexing. His shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for him due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. His blonde hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. His eyes are gray and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He is fiercely devoted to his father, and views his father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-sister.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Interpreter arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He inherited a moderately successful company from his father. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. He found several beat up suits of armor and, cannibalizing spare parts, he put together a working one.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Persistence. Bonds: Family, Rich. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 9000 cp. Tiger eye turquoise (4 gp). Red spinel (100 gp).

Description: With grey face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he very much looks the part of a Stylist. He has shaved his head bald. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

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 has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: Shane lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Like his mother and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Stylist. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Stylist for the past few years.

Motivation: To unite with his sister; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Flaws: Selfish, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Attractive, Family. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a green armored body suit, with a simple black line shooting up and back down. He carries with him a set of falchions, each one with a amber on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. He has moderate length brown hair. His fierce brown eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: His necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and his religion dominates his actions

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 100 pp.