Description: A middle-aged man, he wears well tailored suits and hats with beautiful decoration. He is almost always dressed for an outing in high society, and is pretty ugly. With a patchy red beard and wild red hair. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with music. He constantly tries to fill his life with music. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: Heir to a fortune, his parents put a great deal of effort into curing his disease. He was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. In his journeys he found a malevolent artifact. He wishes to return this artifact and its corrupting influence back to where it came.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and to reunite with his old friends

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized yellow coat. His hair is black and very short. 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 likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: He was born in the west. A few years later when the east was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 9 years.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and expand his business

Flaws: Insomniac, Shy. Bonds: Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 300 gp. Jet (50 gp). Tourmaline (50 gp).

Description: A moderately attractive man, he wears yellow leather gloves, a yellow jacket, and tight pants. His long chestnut hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His fierce brown eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. He is a great chef.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. 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. He was granted necromantic powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable; and he possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Criminal record. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 18000 cp. Jasper (20 gp). Onyx (20 gp). Violet garnet (600 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 auburn hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. Recently a tribe of orcs attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Conrad fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Fighting, Athletic, Joker. Flaws: Ugly. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Chain shirt. 1 Breastplate. 1 Masterwork Heavy steel shield. 1 Banded mail.

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He wears a grey shirt, with a white mid length shorts with white tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. His hair is brown and curly. His brown eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He is shy and timid. He has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. His childhood dream was to be a Slave Trader, but he was a colossal failure. 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: His religion dominates his actions; and to be a slave trader again

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Job, Religious. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Average lock.