Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He wears suspenders and green workpants. His shirt is yellow, and he wears a heavy green leather apron most of the time. His hair, while still mostly chestnut, has prominent grey streaks. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He considers himself a man of culture and sophistication. He likes a good challenge to his wits. He lacks restraint and is impulsive. He jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Courier arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. His father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and he is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Impulsive. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 1300 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). Gold music box (2000 gp).

Description: This fat western man has a bulbous nose and is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Apothecary. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His blonde hair has been sun bleached extensively. This gray eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends he is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy himself. His job bores him to no end. He has decided to make it more interesting.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and he is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Criminal record, Military, Slave. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 180 pp. Azurite (16 gp). Violet garnet (1400 gp).

Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a tea of some kind. He wears light armors faded through time and improper care, marred by teas. He has done his best to style his golden hair to look like a famous performer. He has brown eyes.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. He will do just about anything if he becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this he is easily convinced.

History: Naal was raised in a hard working conservative environment. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Bellfounder. He became a Bellfounder soon after.

Motivation: He wants to get laid; and he would like to get married and retire

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Has a crush, Job. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 600 gp.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy silver stubble. He dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. He has a hunchback. His silver hair is still thick. His eyes are gray and beady.

Personality: He likes to fabricate stories about his past exploits and how crazy he is, but in actuality he is rather bland. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. Being born in the north, 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 north 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 south. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: To unite with his brother; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Flaws: Ugly, Mundane, Shy. Bonds: Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 2000 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (130 gp). A delicate silver chain set with a tourmaline (20 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A middle-aged man, he wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle, and is pretty ugly. He wears his silver hair up. This brown eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He is a man who does what he needs to. He will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. He is always in debt, since he spends his money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: Born in the north to a Cartwright, Nutae learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. At a young age both his parents were killed in an accident. His uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took him in and had him trained in basic self defense. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 3000 gp. Coral (40 gp). Bloodstone (20 gp). Alexandrite (800 gp). Alexandrite (800 gp). Aquamarine (800 gp). Citrine (20 gp). Rock crystal (20 gp). Moss agate (16 gp). Chalcedony (20 gp). Moss agate (16 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.