Description: He tends to wear a large grey jacket, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 5'2" when asserting himself. His hair is white and curly. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. In his 11th year, his parents were killed by a dire rats raid, leaving John alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and a deep hatred of dire rats

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Insomniac. Bonds: Enemies, Job. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 600 sp. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: This dark-skinned male wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a brown coat. He is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. His golden hair is thinning but still full. His hazel eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He has schizophrenia that causes him to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. He has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Like his father and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Shipwright. He became a Shipwright soon after.

Motivation: To end his boredom.

Flaws: Disease, Antagonistic, Mundane. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He wears a white costume with the symbols of the sun god on his torso. He is bald on top and has large black tufts of hair around his ears. He has gleaming, smiling blue eyes.

Personality: He loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from him. He is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Human in existence. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Justice, Entrepeneur, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 800 gp.

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his monstrous two handed axe with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His half smiles and brown eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: This man loves music and to teach people music more than just about anything. He is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: Heir to a fortune, his parents put a great deal of effort into curing his disease. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. 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: He uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs; and money/treasure

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Shy, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 3000 cp. Freshwater pearl (8 gp). Amethyst (150 gp). Rose (20 gp). 1 Silk rope.

Description: This man wears black leather gloves, a black jacket, and tight pants, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His white hair and beard is wavy and long. His hazel eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. He is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with his old comrades. He has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. He was a friend to animals and a trickster. In his defense of animals however he would do severe harm to people. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: He doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes; and obtaining odd cultural human artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Adventurer, Poor, Nature. Occupation: Detective

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

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Minor magic item.