Description: A moderately attractive man, he prefers to wear black pants and tee shirts. He wears his black hair down. He has brown eyes and a black hat with a white feather.

Personality: This man loves painting and to teach people painting more than just about anything. He is cautious and jumpy. He reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. 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 ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Fortune-teller for the past few years.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and expand his business

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Fearful, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 24000 cp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears blue trousers with white and violet striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. His chestnut hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. He worked as a nervous Ploughman and found it very stressful. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature morningstar.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 200 gp. Citrine (50 gp). Jasper (50 gp). Pink pearl (120 gp).

Description: He wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. He is portly but not overly obese. His hair is auburn and curly. His amber eyes peer out from beneath his wide-brimmed blue hat.

Personality: He is shy and timid. He has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. He plays an instrument quite well.

History: His divine talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Human artifacts is his passion.

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 100 gp. Alexandrite (900 gp). Golden yellow topaz (900 gp). Jasper (30 gp).

Description: This late middle aged man wears tattered old clothes and is in decent physical shape. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His eyes are a pleasant brown.

Personality: The man has a huge range of feeling. He will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how he will be a better person from this day on. He has a cruel streak; something he gained from his previous mentor. He harbors resentment against his former mentor.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. 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 find somewhere to settle down; and he seems to be bored by most things

Flaws: Ugly, Emotional, Antagonistic, Mundane. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He usually wears his brown robe and has his dagger always slung over his shoulder. His golden hair has been sun bleached extensively. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. Being born in the west, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the west for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way east. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Scribe they were divorced and he won custody of their son. He worked as a Locksmith, and he later adopted a second son.

Motivation: To unite with his sister; and to reunite with his absent father

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Immigrant, Military, Family. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: Just what you see.