Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing green cape and mantle trimmed with soft blue waves gently in the breeze. His auburn hair is braided into rings. His hazel eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

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 is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: When he was but 3 years old his parents immigrated from the north. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Addict, Shy. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He is dressed in an above average manner. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. His black hair is heavily combed to the right. His eyes are a pleasant violet.

Personality: He has two modes he varies between. On the job he is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job he is a party animal. He disdains his fellow westerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: He got into the Miller business at a young age. His first spouse was a Jeweler, they had one daughter, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and wants to open a new tavern

Bonds: Attractive, Job, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: He wears baggy pastel pantaloons and a white scarf. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly greatswords and tridents. His chestnut hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. His eyes are likewise brown.

Personality: Simon is depressed about a lot of things. He tends to be a nihilist. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: He got into the Performer business at a young age. His childhood dream was to be a Fletcher, but he was a colossal failure. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his sons to still be retired.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent mother; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Criminal record, Job, Family. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 2100 sp. Zircon (50 gp). Black opal (900 gp).

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears tattered old clothes. He has no hair. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. 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-sister.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Marry his sister to traveling adventurers; and to clean up the streets

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Guardian, Family. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he wears dull black sweaters, loose blue pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath his sweater he keeps a concealed shield, just in case. His golden hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. He has brown eyes and a black hat with a blue feather.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with writing. He constantly tries to fill his life with writing. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered writing. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and doesn't want to be a dilettante and was forced into it by his family

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Mundane, Shy. Bonds: Religious, Family. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 13000 cp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (900 gp).