Description: He is a pot bellied southern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. His long blonde hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. He has blue eyes and a pastel hat with a grey feather.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Ideals: Athletic, Optimist, Opinionated. Bonds: Attractive, Slave. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he wears a brown coat over a black low-cut shirt, and a wide-brimmed hat upon his head. His head has been shaved. He has a dull look in his brown eyes.

Personality: He is a very philanthropic person; he spends his free time working at various soup kitchens. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: He was born in the south, but his parents moved at a very young age to the north. He became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. He left for the south, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Seeks redemption; and a rival would like him out of the picture

Ideals: Philantrophist, Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: He prefers to wear flannel. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his bastard sword, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a cross on it. His black hair is thinning but still full. He wears large thick round spectacles.

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. He does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for him. He lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: He comes from a rich northern family. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. 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: To reunite with his old friends; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Tanglefoot bags.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. With bright chestnut hair and a scraggly beard. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Cook who has hired him part-time. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: He was born in the west. He has had some formal singing training, and achieved minor success. He has recently attracted an admirer that believes he's playing hard to get.

Motivation: He wants to get laid; and wants a kiss

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted, Artistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Has a crush. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 1700 sp.

Description: He is typically in his Carter uniform. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. He wears his auburn hair up. His amber eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. He is fiercely devoted to his father, and views his father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-brother.

History: Born in the south to a Carter, Charles learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. 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. He struck the Carter job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Opinionated. Bonds: Job, Attractive, Family. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 100 gp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (700 gp). 1 Magnifying glass. 1 Simple lock.