Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. His chestnut hair is smooth and relatively long. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep hazel.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. 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: Born in the south to a Carpenter, Nicholas learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. His mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He tends to his Carpenter job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: Expand his business; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Job, Rich. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (40 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (90 gp).

Description: He is a mite stocky and prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. He carries his fan with him everywhere and carries himself as the perfect gentleman. He wears his blonde hair up in a very large beehive style do. His eyes are amber.

Personality: Here is a man who knows he is the smartest in the room. He talks down to others constantly. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his music with anyone who is interested.

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. His necromantic abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He has been saving his money to try and buy his brother's freedom.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Impeccable, Artistic, Gifted. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 300 gp. Lapis lazuli (16 gp).

Description: He wears a black small hat and black clothes. He carries with him a set of greataxes on his belt, each one with a aquamarine on the hilt. With a patchy red beard and wild red hair. He is baby faced.

Personality: He likes to fabricate stories about his past exploits and how crazy he is, but in actuality he is rather bland. He disdains his fellow easterners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. Reynard was born on a far eastern plains where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Detective. He tends to his Detective job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Immigrant, Military, Job. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Alchemist’s fire.

Description: He stands about 5'9" and is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes.. His left leg appears badly burned and disfigured. His hair is cut close to his head. His skin is flawless and his hazel eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: He runs his personal life as if detached from it. He organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits he will get from it. A friendly and beautiful Human, he is rarely seen without a few beauties around his arms. Though a playboy in all rights, he is no lame duck.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. Being born in the east, 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 east 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 west. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and regain custody of his son

Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Family. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 6000 sp.

Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he wears baggy blue pantaloons and a green scarf. His long blonde hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His hazel eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. He is underhanded and not above using his wealth and body to get others to do his bidding.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Mason hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. Recently a tribe of gnolls attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Ralf fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and he feels kind of lost in life

Ideals: Gifted, Fighting. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Attractive, Poor. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 9000 sp. Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (700 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (150 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (700 gp). 1 Minor magic item.