Description: A stocky lighter skinned man, he wears a black vest and prefers blue and grey shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. His black hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his mother.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north; and he feels kind of lost in life

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 1200 pp. Red garnet (50 gp). Violet garnet (1300 gp). Deep blue spinel (1300 gp).

Description: This light-skinned male wears a pastel shirt, with a white mid length shorts with white tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. He is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. His black hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His amber eyes peer out from beneath his feathered pastel hat.

Personality: Himo is a sociable creature first and foremost. He loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. He can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. Himo enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Himo lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. His childhood dream was to be a Merchant, but he was a colossal failure. He has achieved small success as a Painter.

Motivation: Expand his business; and he's looking for his big break

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Family, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 230 pp.

Description: He prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. He sports a long auburn beard, and similarly colored long hair. His green eyes are slightly larger than normal.

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 passes on several rewards to people in need. He makes a point to leave places better than he found them.

History: He was born at the edge of vast mountains. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Fivin grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Fivin. He has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: Wants a kiss; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Ideals: Joker, Philantrophist. Bonds: Rich, Nature, Criminal record, Has a crush. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 1400 gp. Chalcedony (20 gp). Golden yellow topaz (800 gp). Violet garnet (800 gp). Red-brown spinel (100 gp).

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears a grey vest and prefers white and blue shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. His golden hair is cut short. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines amber.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He will do just about anything if he becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this he is easily convinced.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. Aust was born on a far western island where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Bellfounder. He left for the west, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He's attracted to the PC; and he would like to get married and retire

Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Immigrant, Has a crush, Military. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 100 pp. Tourmaline (130 gp). Rhodochrosite (9 gp). Red garnet (130 gp).

Description: A middle-aged man, he wears many layers of old clothing at all times, and is pretty ugly. He has no hair. This violet eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: He got into the Assassin business at a young age. When the war came and ruined his parents he was left adrift. He was a hard man then and has only learned to fight more as time goes on. He would ruin relationships and cause injury. He was reprimanded several times before being given his current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Assassin responsibilities is difficult; and to be a marshal again

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly, PTSD. Bonds: Poor, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 1000 gp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (900 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (140 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (2200 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1400 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (900 gp).