Description: He is an average looking western male in his early mid-life. He wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a brown coat. His moppish auburn hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His eyes are hazel and catlike.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. Simon is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his sisters into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

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. His first spouse was a Bowyer, they had one son, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Layabout responsibilities is difficult; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Philantrophist, Logical. Bonds: Family, Military, Job. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 300 gp. Chrysoprase (60 gp). Hematite (11 gp).

Description: He is typically in his Locksmith uniform. He is portly but not overly obese. He has done his best to style his white hair to look like a famous performer. His eyes are violet.

Personality: He will rave to anyone who will listen. He does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for him. He lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Like his father and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Locksmith. He has taken up work as a Locksmith and fed both sides of the war false information with the goal of increasing casualties.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Locksmith responsibilities is difficult; and further expansion of business

Flaws: Insane, Mundane, PTSD. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 300 gp. Moss agate (14 gp).

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy white stubble. He prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. He has a hunchback. He keeps his long white hair kept up in a rat tail. He is baby faced.

Personality: Thomas is depressed about a lot of things. He tends to be a nihilist. He is cautious and jumpy. He reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: Thomas hails from a village terrorized by dire rats. His mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and he wants revenge against dire rats

Flaws: Ugly, Depressed, Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Enemies, Adventurer. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: An older man who wears dark leathers with embroidery, he is not a threatening figure. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His violet eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. More though he will beg to come along on any journeys. He will attempt to stowaway on any ship he can in the hopes that it will get him further away.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Shipwright arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 11 years.

Motivation: Expand his business.

Bonds: Guardian, Slave, Rich, Job. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 60 pp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: This tall, slender man is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing brown cape and mantle trimmed with soft pastel waves gently in the breeze. His golden hair is long and unkept. His eyes are gray and beady.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He invented a lineage for himself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: Charles lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: Marry his sister to traveling adventurers.

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 400 gp.