Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He wears a worn and beaten armor. His golden hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. His amber eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He speaks before he thinks and is too direct. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: Simon was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of philosophers.

Motivation: To protect his home; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Impulsive, Secretive. Bonds: Job, Guardian. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 600 gp. Blue star sapphire (500 gp). Jade (120 gp). Blue quartz (15 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a beer of some kind. He wears a black tunic with pastel highlights, and long brown pants that bunch up around his shoes, marred by beers. He wears his white hair up. He has several tiny ruby earrings on each ear.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Joker, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 19000 cp.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He dresses in pastel turtlenecks beneath a tan coat with pastel slacks. His moppish auburn hair is in a traditional bowl cut. He has violet eyes.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: When he was but 3 years old his parents immigrated from the south. 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. He left for the south, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and meet up once more with his childhood friend

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Immigrant, Mentor. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Superior lock. 1 Crowbar.

Description: This man is tall and muscular. He wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty blue coat over it. His white hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. Energy wise he seems alert and responsive.

History: Simon hails from a village terrorized by drow. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Many drow want him driven away.

Ideals: Athletic, Philantrophist, Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This exceptionally lanky man wears well tailored suits and hats with beautiful decoration. He is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. 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 a bit of a macho man and will challenge people to random contests of strength and skill, and invite them to random hunting and fishing trip.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Rich, Job, Nature. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.