Description: This slender man stands about 6'6". He wears a green costume with the symbols of the four houses of cards on his torso. He has auburn hair. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He considers himself a man of culture and sophistication. He likes a good challenge to his wits. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: Gifted from a young age, Bertram studied abroad. He was one of the best in his class, and was picked up by his current employer. He quickly showed his capability and was soon promoted to a head role. He has worked as a Barber like his father before him.

Motivation: He is wracked by social anxiety; and balancing his hectic life and new barber responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Impeccable, Gifted. Flaws: Secretive, Fearful. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 600 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This late middle aged man wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress) and is in decent physical shape. He wears a colorful flower in his red hair. He has a dull look in his hazel eyes.

Personality: He is cool and collected. He likes to make quips and puns whenever he does anything. He also makes a point to compliment his superiors and flatter them. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Randal is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: Randal was born the youngest of three triplets. His family was turned out during the war. He and his family wandered east to less war torn lands. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister; and doesn't want to be a spice merchant and was forced into it by his family

Ideals: Disciplined, Justice. Flaws: PTSD. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 300 gp. Star rose quartz (40 gp). Obsidian (8 gp).

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he is typically in his Scribe uniform. He sports a long blonde beard, and similarly colored long hair. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines hazel.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He passes on several rewards to people in need. He makes a point to leave places better than he found them.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He struck the Scribe job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Scribe responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Disciplined, Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Slave. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: 300 gp. An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (140 gp). A pair of blacksmith’s puzzle; each has a pair of interlocked iron designs that users try to take apart and put back together (90 gp).

Description: He wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with wide-brimmed hat. He has wavy auburn hair. His eyes are gray and beady.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. The war was a terrible time for him, and Alex does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. He always admired martial-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He was granted martial powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and he feels kind of lost in life

Ideals: Gifted, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking western young adult. He prefers to wear flannel. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His hair is always cut to a buzz. His eyes are gray and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He enjoys reading and quiet.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. He worked as a nervous Spice Merchant and found it very stressful. He tends to his Spice Merchant job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Spice Merchant responsibilities is difficult; and he is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Slave, Poor, Job. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.