Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears a red tunic with brown highlights, and long green pants that bunch up around his shoes. His black hair has been sun bleached extensively. He has several tiny jet earrings on each ear.

Personality: He likes to fabricate stories about his past exploits and how crazy he is, but in actuality he is rather bland. 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: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. The family's rival house kidnapped his sister with the intent that his sister marry their son to gain control of contested properties. After months of barely getting by, Arannis managed to ambush a major caravan with a load of valuables. Instantly wealthy, he made his way to the capital under a new identity.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs

Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Rich, Family, Criminal record, Attractive. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 2000 sp.

Description: This man is very fat, and wears a yellow wide-brimmed hat and yellow clothes. He has no hair. His eyes are a pleasant amber.

Personality: He trusts no one. He is not readily capable for forgiveness and his ire never leaves him. He disdains his fellow northerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. 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. Being a Courier kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and sabotage a competitor

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Slave, Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 17000 gp. Golden circlet with four aquamarines (5000 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (2000 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (180 gp). Finely wrought small gold bracelet (100 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (500 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (180 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (300 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (180 gp). Solid gold idol (300 gp). Finely wrought small gold bracelet (100 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (180 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (500 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (500 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (500 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (5000 gp). Silver ewer (100 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (180 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (180 gp). Solid gold idol (300 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A plain young-adult man, he wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized blue coat. With a patchy blonde beard and wild blonde hair. His eyes are likewise blue.

Personality: A deeply religious man he believes everything happens for a reason. He is harsh and unforgiving.

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. He sought a place where he would be rewarded solely on the merits of his skills. This search led him directly into Stylist work with an outfit from a few towns over. Stylist work suited him well, and with each successful project, he earned more gold and more respect from his peers. He was granted martial powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Religious, Job. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 800 gp.

Description: This fat eastern man has a bulbous nose and is wearing a long, grey, dusty cloak. His skin is also unnaturally pale. With bright golden hair and a scraggly beard. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. He always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Map Maker business.

History: The child of eastern immigrants he idolized his father. His father disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his father, he was betrayed dozens of times. He was granted martial powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Gifted, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 1400 gp.

Description: He is an average looking eastern male in his early mid-life. He dresses in violet turtlenecks beneath a black coat with brown slacks. His hair, while still mostly black, has prominent grey streaks. This violet eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing singing.

History: Heian was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He's also a talented Blacksmith, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: To be a Blacksmith again.

Ideals: Justice, Artistic. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 20 pp. Silver pearl (60 gp). Silver pearl (60 gp). Lapis lazuli (4 gp).