Description: His skin is bronze and flawless. He tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. He is an epitome of beauty. His chestnut hair is smooth and relatively long. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his hazel eyes.

Personality: He is happy with his job as a Engraver. He turns his eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: He comes from a rich eastern family. 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 has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and many dire rats want him driven away

Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Rich, Family, Enemies. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: This man dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His brown hair has been sun bleached extensively. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He goes out his way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one he won't accept into his heart. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. In his 14th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac, Fearful. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: Red garnet (60 gp). Freshwater pearl (16 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1200 gp). Red-brown spinel (60 gp).

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he wears a pastel shirt with thin blue vertical stripes and brown pants. He has dyed his greying brown hair a little too much giving a sharp brown color. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. 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 was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Rich, Job. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: A middle-aged man, he does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it, and is pretty ugly. He has wavy chestnut hair. His hazel eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. He never wears the same outfit twice, unless he absolutely has to.

History: Adelard lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He has had some formal music training, and achieved minor success. He has been saving his money to try and buy his brother's freedom.

Motivation: Regain custody of his daughter; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Disciplined, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: He prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. He carries with him a set of sais on his belt, each one with a jet on the hilt. His long brown hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. 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 never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. His philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: Trained by his mother for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. After coming to the age of reason, Charles took it upon himself to study the psionic arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He is greedy.

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist, Gifted. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Rich, Military. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 10000 cp. Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (900 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.