Description: This exceptionally lanky man wears a worn and beaten armor. His brown hair is lengthy. His eyes are hazel and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He speaks before he thinks and is too direct. He will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: His arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. After coming to the age of reason, Thomas took it upon himself to study the arcane arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He left for the west, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Painter responsibilities is difficult; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 1900 sp.

Description: This western man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He prefers to wear flannel. He keeps his blonde hair in a pixie cut. His eyes are likewise blue. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: Geoffrey is a sociable creature first and foremost. He loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. He can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: Geoffrey lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a daughter. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and to reunite with his absent mother

Ideals: Extrovert, Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, In love. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 17000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man wears a brown collared shirt and blue pants. He accessorizes with a brown scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. His hair is long and white with streaks of brown, and is pulled back with small brown clips. His beard is brown, braided, and well cared for. His ears are large.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Spice Merchant arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Gomory grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Gomory. After months of barely getting by, Gomory managed to ambush a major caravan with a load of valuables. Instantly wealthy, he made his way to the capital under a new identity.

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.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 300 gp.

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 hair is short and white. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

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 is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. 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 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: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Logical. Flaws: Emotional. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 300 gp. Star rose quartz (60 gp).

Description: Standing 6'2", this man wears grey trousers with black and red striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. His chestnut hair is unkempt and raggedy. His green eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He has always had a great fascination with Human culture. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his poetry with anyone who is interested.

History: Heward was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his mother was employed at, doing general labor. His first spouse was a Spy, they had one son, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent mother.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Poor, Family. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 100 gp. Violet garnet (200 gp). Deep blue spinel (200 gp). Moss agate (7 gp).