Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest. His brown hair is braided into rings. His eyes are green and beady.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with writing. He constantly tries to fill his life with writing. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Richard is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. He has had some formal writing training, and achieved minor success. He has achieved small success as a Shoemaker.

Motivation: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Artistic, Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Slave, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He usually wears his tan robe and has his mace always slung over his shoulder. His golden hair, when down, is lengthy. His eyes are likewise brown.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: He was born at the edge of vast mountains. Being born in the west, 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 west 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 south. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Cartwright and was forced into it by his family.

Ideals: Athletic, Persistence. Bonds: Religious, Nature, Family. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 200 gp. 4 Tanglefoot bags. 2 Acid flasks. 1 Alchemist’s fire.

Description: His left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He is dressed in a clean white cloak covering his clean studded leather. His hair is white and curly. He has several tiny topaz earrings on each ear.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation he is generally quite perceptive. He notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. He also has developed a complete distrust of the Guard profession.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. After coming to the age of reason, Cory 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 struck the Baker job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and he is greedy

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Rich, Job, Mentor. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 200 gp. Fiery yellow corundum (600 gp).

Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic right hand, he likes to wear ponchos typically of a light brown in addition to tight pants. His moppish black hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His amber eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family He was a friend to animals and a trickster. In his defense of animals however he would do severe harm to people. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and wants to raise his children well

Ideals: Persistence. Bonds: Criminal record, Nature, Family. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 2500 sp.

Description: He is a paragon of his species. He is larger and stronger than most Humans. His skin is dark but he possesses many tan ritualistic tattoos. He wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. He sports a long white beard, and similarly colored long hair. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: His voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl he speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of his tone. He uses divination through singing.

History: His arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His arcane abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He was granted arcane powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Shepherd and was forced into it by his family; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Cynical. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 1200 sp. White pearl (130 gp). Amber (130 gp).