Description: He is scrawny and has patchy black stubble. He wears suspenders and white workpants. His shirt is tan, and he wears a heavy white leather apron most of the time. He has a hunchback. With a patchy black beard and wild black hair. His brown unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is a Cartwright first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the south. His childhood dream was to be a Detective, but he was a colossal failure. He became a Cartwright soon after.

Motivation: To be a Detective again; and further expansion of business

Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Secretive. Bonds: Job, Poor. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 1000 gp. Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (60 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (60 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (400 gp). Jeweled gold crown (3000 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (60 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (60 gp). Solid gold idol (200 gp). A small bag of saffron. (10 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (2400 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. With a patchy golden beard and wild golden hair. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines brown.

Personality: Here is a man who knows he is the smartest in the room. He talks down to others constantly. More though he will beg to come along on any journeys. He will attempt to stowaway on any ship he can in the hopes that it will get him further away.

History: He was born in a small desert village. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered poetry. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Ideals: Impeccable, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Slave, Nature. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 1000 gp. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. His skin is fair and his fingers are delicate and long. His silver hair and beard is wavy and long. His hazel eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Ivellios will drive conversation. 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: Ivellios lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Through the years after Ivellios was born, his mother became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the east. Ivellios's mother didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: He is greedy; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Antagonistic, Insomniac. Bonds: Family, Rich. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 3000 gp. Eye agate (15 gp). Violet garnet (500 gp). Banded agate (15 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A middle-aged man, he is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing black cape and mantle trimmed with soft white waves gently in the breeze, and is pretty ugly. He has shaved his head bald. His eyes are likewise amber. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. Any perceived weakness will be pressed and exploited. He is seen as merciless and passionate.

History: He was born in the west. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: He is a bit of a kleptomaniac.

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record, Immigrant. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 3000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time, and carries daggers. His chestnut hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. His eyes are brown and catlike.

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. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: Born in the west his family was never financially stable. A freak accident while working with his Miller mother left him crippled. 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. Theren 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 find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister

Ideals: Fighting, Joker. Flaws: Shy, Disease. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 1400 gp. A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (170 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1300 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (600 gp).