Description: This fat western man has a bulbous nose and is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His skin is also unnaturally pale. He has a very tight haircut. He has several tiny sapphire earrings on each ear.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and he has money and likes to spend it

Flaws: Ugly, Terse, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 70 pp. Blue star sapphire (900 gp). Freshwater pearl (12 gp). Chrysoberyl (160 gp). 1 Antitoxin.

Description: With pastel face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. His white hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Healer born in the past three hundred years. A friendly and beautiful Human, he is rarely seen without a few beauties around his arms. Though a playboy in all rights, he is no lame duck.

History: The child of a Merchant, who enjoyed hunting, Ralf was taken on many hunting expeditions. 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 Healer. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He's in love; and wants his loneliness to end

Bonds: Attractive, Job, Nature, Has a crush. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 400 gp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (400 gp).

Description: This exceptionally lanky man prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. He carries his fan with him everywhere and carries himself as the perfect gentleman. His head has been shaved. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He can't help but pocket interesting objects he comes across

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Arnold 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 Arnold. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

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; and he is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Guardian, Criminal record, Slave. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 700 gp.

Description: This southern man wears dark leathers with embroidery. His clothes are grease stained in places. He wears his silver hair up. His eyes are a pleasant hazel.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. His temper goes off on the smallest of things. He tends to lash out at those around him.

History: Born in the south his family was never financially stable. His first spouse was a Sculptor, they had one son, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. He has been saving his money to try and buy his sister's freedom.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister.

Flaws: Insane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 7000 sp. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: He wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty green coat over it. His moppish chestnut hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His blue eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. A true patriot, Trym would do anything for his country. He is fiercely protective of his fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: His father raised him in a mountain cabin. He was an adventurer many years ago and he formed a blood bond with his Human companion (his 'brother'). He now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Military, Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 19000 cp. Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.