Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with deerstalker hat. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy white hair. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: Everard was raised in a hard working conservative environment. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Dyer.

Motivation: To protect his home.

Ideals: Justice. Bonds: Guardian, Job, Religious. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He is a pot bellied northern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He usually wears his yellow robe and has his hand crossbow always slung over his shoulder. His auburn hair is greasy and uncared for. He has blue eyes and a yellow hat with a pastel feather.

Personality: Quiet and reserved he prefers to listen than to talk. He will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly.

History: Born in the north to a Painter, Dean learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. 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: Balancing his hectic life and new Painter responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 2600 sp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: He wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. His red hair is lengthy. His fierce gray eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with singing. He constantly tries to fill his life with singing. He feeds upon the attention of others.

History: Gifted from a young age, Aldous studied abroad. Being born in the south, 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 south 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. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his sons to still be retired.

Motivation: To end his boredom; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 300 gp. 4 Holy water. 3 Antitoxin.

Description: 5'1" and muscular, this eastern man usually wears his black robe and has his morningstar always slung over his shoulder. His auburn hair is singed and shortened. 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 is a hateful person. He taunts others and blames them for his problems. He can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. His parents divorced when he was young, and his mother gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his mother, who blamed him for driving them apart. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac, Antagonistic. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 500 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He likes to wear ponchos typically of a light violet in addition to tight pants. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his ceremonial dagger, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a skull on it. He keeps his long blonde hair kept up in a rat tail. His eyes are hazel and beady.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Diggory will drive conversation. He refers to his adoptive mother for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. He graduated from the Naval Academy and went to see the world at the rank of Ensign. He advanced relatively quickly due to his good work ethic, understanding of the chain of command, and natural leadership ability. 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: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and doesn't want to be a sailor and was forced into it by his family

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Family, Military, Slave. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: Silver comb with moonstones (400 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (900 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (900 gp). 1 Minor magic item.