Description: This late middle aged man wears well tailored suits and hats with beautiful decoration. He is almost always dressed for an outing in high society and is in decent physical shape. His moppish brown hair is in a traditional bowl cut. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He is a man who does what he needs to. He will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: Bertram lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day; and he has decided he is irredeemable

Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record, Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 300 gp. Malachite (8 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is tall and muscular. He wears a grey tunic with tan highlights, and long red pants that bunch up around his shoes. His red hair is lengthy. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are amber.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Gardener born in the past three hundred years. He can't help but pocket interesting objects he comes across

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. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He struck the Gardener job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister; and seeks redemption

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Bonds: Job, Criminal record, Slave, Family. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 14000 cp. 1 Magnifying glass. 1 Average lock.

Description: 5'11" and muscular, this northern man wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His auburn hair is heavily combed to the right. His eyes are brown and beady.

Personality: He is curt in most of his responses. He prefers to keep his word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. He plays an instrument quite well.

History: A child with a great deal of poetry talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He has never given up on his poetry dream.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and retire the richest man in the north

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Athletic, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He is dressed in a clean grey cloak covering his clean studded leather. His hair is always cut to a buzz. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: His arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His father was very strict, and drilled into him lessons on being the perfect gentleman. He left for the south, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for him; and he doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted, Impeccable. Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item.

Description: 5'3" and muscular, this southern man wears an entirely blue suit with white socks and a vest with buckled shoes. He has a very tight haircut. His ears are large.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. He is a great chef.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. He always admired psionic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. After a long history of fighting, Miles and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and obtaining odd cultural human artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 3000 sp. Black pearl (1000 gp). Zircon (20 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1000 gp).