Description: This fat southern man has a bulbous nose and dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His hair is short and brown. His hazel unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as he rather likes the sound of his voice. His demeanor is somewhat feminine. He also has developed a complete distrust of the Scribe profession.

History: William was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his father was employed at, doing general labor. He was an apprentice working in his father's forge. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To be a Scribe again; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Job, Poor. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: He wears a blue cloak and cross-gartered pastel stockings. He carries with him a set of crossbows on his belt, each one with a amber on the hilt. He wears a broad hat to hide his balding. His blue eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Performer who has hired him part-time. He is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. He has gone from town to town working and never settling down anywhere, but has fallen for a local Ruler. He hasn't told them the truth, but wants to settle down with them.

Motivation: Wants his loneliness to end; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Ideals: Fighting, Joker. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Has a crush, Slave. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 2500 sp.

Description: With tan face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. His silver hair is still thick. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: Simon is depressed about a lot of things. He tends to be a nihilist. He lacks restraint and is impulsive. He jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. A few years later when the east was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He left for the west, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He loathes his own lifestyle; and he feels kind of lost in life

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Depressed, Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: He is a mite stocky and usually wears his white robe and has his bastard sword always slung over his shoulder. His silver hair, when down, is lengthy. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: Born in the south to a Blacksmith, Lance learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered painting. He tends to his Blacksmith job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: To be a Dyer again; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Joker, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This northern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He is renowned for his bright black suits and hats. His small hat is riddled with cuts and holes. His eyes are gray and catlike.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. His temper goes off on the smallest of things. He tends to lash out at those around him.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. Alex was born on a far northern plains where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Shoemaker. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Passionate. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Military, Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 100 gp. Onyx (60 gp).