Description: This exceptionally lanky man is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. He wears his auburn hair up. His ears are large.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Barrister born in the past three hundred years. He is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories he has discovered

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. 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 Barrister. He has worked as a Barrister like his mother before him.

Motivation: Expand his business.

Ideals: Logical, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 500 gp. Azurite (4 gp).

Description: This slender man stands about 5'2". He wears a grey armored body suit, with a simple white line shooting up and back down. His silver hair is singed and shortened. He has several tiny emerald earrings on each ear.

Personality: He seems absolutely devoid of it. He stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Shepherd arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Naeris was born on a far northern forest where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Shepherd. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down; and to end his boredom

Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: He is a mite stocky and is dressed in an above average manner. His blonde hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His eyes are likewise brown.

Personality: He is cool and collected. He likes to make quips and puns whenever he does anything. He also makes a point to compliment his superiors and flatter them. 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 son.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. He always admired necromantic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage.

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Nature. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 3000 gp. Deep green spinel (60 gp). Blue star sapphire (500 gp). Black pearl (900 gp).

Description: His right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. His auburn hair is thinning but still full. His amber eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic man, Theren's first love is himself. His second love is also himself. He also has developed a complete distrust of the Performer profession.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the south. 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 recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Ideals: Impeccable. Bonds: Job, Poor, Criminal record. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 11000 gp. A silver and pearl hairclip (90 gp). Carved bone or ivory statuette (90 gp). Jeweled gold crown (8000 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp).

Description: He wears baggy blue pantaloons and a tan scarf. His hair is silver and curly. He has green eyes and a blue hat with a tan feather.

Personality: He does not care much for physical appearances, nor does he care much for other people. He does however care about what he wants and getting it. He would rather hide behind his crafts than deal with other people.

History: Hadarai hails from a village terrorized by goblins. His father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by goblins, and he desires to right it; and several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Enemies, Rich. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 700 gp. Obsidian (14 gp). Onyx (30 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (14 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.