Description: An older man who dresses in black turtlenecks beneath a red coat with grey slacks, he is not a threatening figure. His hair is long and brown with streaks of chestnut, and is pulled back with small black clips. His beard is chestnut, braided, and well cared for. His brown eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Layabout arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. His mother was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Terse. Bonds: Rich, Family, Job. Occupation: Layabout

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

Possessions: 300 gp. Alexandrite (1000 gp). Freshwater pearl (9 gp). White pearl (50 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He wears a tattered pair of loose grey pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. With a patchy chestnut beard and wild chestnut hair. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. He is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with his big mouthed big gutted partner. His partner is his best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. He is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories he has discovered

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the south. A serious injury left his father unemployed and in need of constant care. His family became saddled with debt trying to care for his infirm father. He is searching for what he claims is his rightful reward.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer, Debt. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 23000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A moderately attractive man, he is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing yellow cape and mantle trimmed with soft brown waves gently in the breeze. He wears his auburn hair up in a very large beehive style do. 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 is erratic and paranoid. He believes brigands are coming to abduct people. 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 is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to brigands demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Revenge.

Flaws: Insomniac, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 100 gp. Blue star sapphire (700 gp). Onyx (20 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: This man is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of his veins is visible when he is not flexing. His shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for him due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. His brown hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: His necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. After a long history of fighting, Everard and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the south.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 22000 sp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it, and he perpetually has his morningstar ready. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His eyes are a pleasant violet.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He is ready at a moment's notice to give into his darker urges. He is a real pyromaniac and does not care who the fire hurts. He often ends up burning people alive in the fires he starts.

History: When he was but 5 years old his parents immigrated from the north. Aldous was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Aldous decided he wanted neither the life of his mother nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. Being a Mayor kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: To protect his home.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Guardian, Criminal record, Immigrant. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 100 gp. Blue sapphire (900 gp). Black star sapphire (900 gp). Amethyst (130 gp).