Description: This light-skinned male wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. His hair is long and golden with streaks of chestnut, and is pulled back with small black clips. His beard is chestnut, braided, and well cared for. His half smiles and blue eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He snorts whenever he laughs or is feeling confident. He is fiercely devoted to his mother, and views his mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-brother.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Humans in the west were limited. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Regain custody of his daughter; and retire the richest man in the west

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Slave, Immigrant. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. His hair is blonde and very short. His eyes are amber and catlike.

Personality: He loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. At a young age both his parents were killed in an accident. His uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took him in and had him trained in basic self defense. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day.

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Criminal record. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: Rose (20 gp).

Description: A pudgy man standing about 5'6" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He wears just a brown suit. He wears a wide-brimmed hat to hide his balding. 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 extraordinarily eccentric. He will do just about anything if he becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this he is easily convinced.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when brigands swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by brigands. Gilbert was horrified and prayed that his father was alright. However, he heard that his father had died fighting off the brigands.

Motivation: He wants revenge against brigands.

Flaws: Insomniac, Insane. Bonds: Has a crush, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 100 gp. Carnelian (70 gp). Deep blue spinel (800 gp).

Description: This man stands a little under 5'9" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He dresses in green turtlenecks beneath a blue coat with green slacks. He wears a colorful flower in his red hair. His violet eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He goes out his way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one he won't accept into his heart. He loves teas. He is very sensitive about his face. To blow off anger he lifts weights and to control his otherwise explosive temper he works out a lot.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family Percival liked to wander the woods near his home when he was young, something he still likes to do at least once a week. He never liked modest clothing or shoes, so he would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and he developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact; and he has decided he is irredeemable

Ideals: Optimist, Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Nature. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: A middle-aged man, he wears a yellow cloak and cross-gartered black stockings, and is pretty ugly. His red hair is thinning but still full. His ears are large.

Personality: He has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Seamstress who has hired him part-time. A fanatic, his devotion to his small selection of gods is unquestionable. He claims to be doing their will and will base all his actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Seamstress arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. His arcane abilities were realized during a raid on his village. 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: Wants a kiss; and he is greedy

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Has a crush, Religious, Rich. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 38000 sp. Moss agate (13 gp). Obsidian (13 gp). Azurite (13 gp). Chrysoprase (60 gp).