Description: With red face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he wears professional attire. His hair is auburn and curly. His amber eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: Richard speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. He is clearly well-traveled and educated. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage daughter.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. His mother was a soldier and died while he was still young. Richard was left his mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: To unite with his sister; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Impeccable. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Slave, Military. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (500 gp).

Description: Standing 5'2", this man is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His hair is cut close to his head. His blue eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He likes to fabricate stories about his past exploits and how crazy he is, but in actuality he is rather bland. He takes great pride in his work and is very well organized. His planner is full of calendar events.

History: Heir to a fortune, his parents put a great deal of effort into curing his disease. Like his mother and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Junk Dealer. He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg.

Flaws: Addict, Mundane, Disease. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: He is a paragon of his species. He is larger and stronger than most Humans. His skin is light but he possesses many tan ritualistic tattoos. He is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Mortician. He wears a wide-brimmed hat to cover his moderate length silver hair. His eyes are violet and catlike.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Mortician arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He sought a place where he would be rewarded solely on the merits of his skills. This search led him directly into Mortician work with an outfit from a few towns over. Mortician work suited him well, and with each successful project, he earned more gold and more respect from his peers. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Mortician responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Mortician

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

Possessions: 100 pp. Solid gold idol (700 gp).

Description: His right side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). He has styled his golden hair well, parting it to the right. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines blue.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He is obsessed with his god.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. 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 been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Religious, Rich. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 1800 sp. Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp).

Description: A 5'11" northern man, he wears a pastel vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His white leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his pastel boots flare out at the collars. He has done his best to style his chestnut hair to look like a famous performer. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He acts crazy and hedonistic. 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, Simon is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. A few years later when the south was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He became a Tailor soon after.

Motivation: He feels threatened by others; and he is terrified, and will act out of fear

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Hedonist, Fearful. Bonds: Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 400 gp. Freshwater pearl (11 gp). Jade (60 gp). Pink pearl (60 gp).