Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He wears a black deerstalker hat and black clothes. His moppish black hair is in a traditional bowl cut. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He does not care much for physical appearances, nor does he care much for other people. He does however care about what he wants and getting it. He also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: The child of southern immigrants he idolized his mother. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and someone believes him a fraud

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 1900 sp. Freshwater pearl (5 gp). Blue sapphire (700 gp).

Description: His right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty white coat over it. He wears his black hair down. His violet eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Masseuse born in the past three hundred years. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Kody was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job.

Ideals: Professionalism, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Mentor. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 200 gp. Silver comb with moonstones (500 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (900 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (800 gp).

Description: This tall, slender man wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with deerstalker hat. He keeps his blonde hair in a flapper bob. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He likes to brag about his accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. Arnold is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his brothers into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. Being born in the north, 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 north 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 east. He eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

Motivation: Wants a kiss; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Passionate. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, Guardian, Has a crush. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He wears a red vest and prefers green and grey shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. His hair is brown and very short. His eyes are a pleasant amber.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. In his 14th year, his parents were killed by a dire rats raid, leaving Norman alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He was granted psionic powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Professionalism, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Nature, Enemies. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 600 gp.

Description: He wears a fine chain shirt which he covers with grey colored cloaks and clothing. His white hair is thinning but still full. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. His parents enrolled him in a Fighter school at a young age so that he could practice his arcane talents. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear; and he feels threatened by others

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Shy, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 200 gp.