Description: He is an average looking southern male in his early mid-life. He wears a green tunic with grey highlights, and long red pants that bunch up around his shoes. His golden hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. He has several tiny sapphire earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: Gerard was raised in a hard working conservative environment. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He would like to get married and retire; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Logical, Fighting. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Rich, Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 400 gp. Peridot (30 gp). Red-brown spinel (100 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: An older man who wears an entirely tan suit with violet socks and a vest with buckled shoes, he is not a threatening figure. He has a long brown beard with little hanging trinkets. He has several tiny emerald earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: He was born in the east. A serious injury left his mother unemployed and in need of constant care. His family became saddled with debt trying to care for his infirm mother. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Professionalism, Justice. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Debt. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: A plain young-adult man, he wears a tan cloak and cross-gartered blue stockings. His brown hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. His brown eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: Deceptive and manipulative this eastern guy figured out how to best use his charms to convince people to do what he wants. He disdains his fellow easterners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and to find somewhere to settle down

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 400 gp. Red-brown spinel (60 gp). Moonstone (40 gp).

Description: He wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty pastel coat over it. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly crossbows and kukris. His hair is blonde and curly. His blue unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He hates giants. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. His parents were killed by giants in a raid when he was still a young child. The giants captured him, and made him a slave and general play-thing. He was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to his deformed appearance. Being a Mortician 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: He wants revenge against giants; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Criminal record, Enemies, Religious. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: Jade (110 gp).

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears skinny pants and wears a blue and white robe with the hood down. His silver hair and beard is wavy and long. His green unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He uses divination through singing.

History: He was born at the edge of vast island. He sought a place where he would be rewarded solely on the merits of his skills. This search led him directly into Crown-heir work with an outfit from a few towns over. Crown-heir work suited him well, and with each successful project, he earned more gold and more respect from his peers. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Crown-heir responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Job, Nature, Family. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 4 Smokesticks.