Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. His hair is short and silver. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. Flattery will make him almost putty in your hands.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Bowyer hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: To end his boredom; and to find somewhere to settle down

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Selfish, Mundane. Bonds: Poor, Attractive. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 100 gp. White pearl (160 gp). Lapis lazuli (15 gp).

Description: He wears a worn and beaten armor. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his rapier, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a dagger on it. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his gray eyes.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. He is obsessed with his god.

History: He comes from a rich northern family. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs.

Ideals: Disciplined. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Rich, Slave. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 2100 sp.

Description: He is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured, and carries spears. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy blonde hair. His violet unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Everard is a sociable creature first and foremost. He loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. He can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: Heir to a fortune, his parents put a great deal of effort into curing his disease. His father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. Recently a tribe of dire rats attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Everard fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he is greedy

Ideals: Fighting, Extrovert, Justice. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 18000 cp. 4 Acid flasks. 1 Everburning torch.

Description: He is a paragon of his species. He is larger and stronger than most Humans. His skin is dark but he possesses many blue ritualistic tattoos. He likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. With bright auburn hair and a scraggly beard. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He will rave to anyone who will listen. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: Heir to a fortune, his parents put a great deal of effort into curing his disease. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and he has money and likes to spend it

Flaws: Insane, Hedonist, Disease, Greedy. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 300 gp. Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (140 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (500 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (300 gp).

Description: He wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt. He wears his chestnut hair up in a very large beehive style do. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He believes mankind has become decadent and spoiled by the march of civilization and an end should come to life as we know it. He is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: He was raised in a desert tribe. His family was turned out during the war. He and his family wandered west to less war torn lands. He struck the Cartwright job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: Expand his business; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: PTSD. Bonds: Nature, Job, Family. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 30000 cp. Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1200 gp). Finely wrought small gold bracelet (40 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (130 gp).