Description: He wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. His skin is fair and his fingers are delicate and long. His auburn hair is cut short. His eyes are blue and beady.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes brigands are coming to abduct people. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. He has worked as a Miller like his mother before him.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Mentor, Job. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Superior lock.

Description: He wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty yellow coat over it. He has relatively light skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. His long blonde hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He disdains his fellow northerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. He always admired psionic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He was granted psionic powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: He possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal; and he is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Persistence, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Poor. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: He wears a fancy grey suit. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly maces and falchions. His hair is short and black. His violet eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Bookbinder. He struck the Bookbinder job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help; and balancing his hectic life and new bookbinder responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Religious, Job. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He wears suspenders and grey workpants. His shirt is brown, and he wears a heavy grey leather apron most of the time. His golden hair is thinning but still full. His brown eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He is irritable and easily angered. He is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use his stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. Despite his manner, he is extremely passionate and proud of his job, and he prides himself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: He was raised in a forest tribe. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and he has money and likes to spend it

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Nature, Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 13000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man wears bulky tan painted plate armor. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. He has wavy golden hair. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: This man loves music and to teach people music more than just about anything. He is very protective of his business, his home, and his spouse. He is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: Born in the south to a Fortune-teller, Hunter learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Fortune-teller. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable; and he is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Job, Religious. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 200 gp.