Description: A middle-aged man, he does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it, and is pretty ugly. He has shaved his head bald. His hazel eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. A freak accident while working with his Shepherd father left him crippled. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Ugly, Addict, Disease, Insomniac. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 1200 gp.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He is wearing a tight black one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. His red hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. His hazel eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He runs his personal life as if detached from it. He organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits he will get from it. He uses divination through singing.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Jeweler arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a son. He was granted arcane powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and money/treasure

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Selfish. Bonds: Rich, In love. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 80 pp. Red spinel (120 gp). Aquamarine (600 gp). Obsidian (13 gp).

Description: A stocky darker skinned man, he wears a tattered pair of loose brown pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. His head has been shaved. His brown eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the north. He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. Himo was born on a far northern desert where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Laborer. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: He is content; and to find somewhere to settle down

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 1400 gp. Sapphire pendant on gold chain (900 gp). An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (80 gp). Solid gold idol (500 gp).

Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a chocolate of some kind. He is dressed in a clean white cloak covering his clean studded leather, marred by chocolates. He keeps his long black hair kept up in a rat tail. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He likes to fabricate stories about his past exploits and how crazy he is, but in actuality he is rather bland. He lacks restraint and is impulsive. He jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. In his 16th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his father impaled in their home, and his mother beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day.

Flaws: Ugly, Mundane, Impulsive, Fearful. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 7000 sp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He wears skinny pants and wears a violet and black robe with the hood down. He wears his blonde hair up. His eyes are green and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. The war was a terrible time for him, and Heian does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: He feels kind of lost in life; and he loathes his own lifestyle

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Addict, Depressed, Insane. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 1600 gp. A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (50 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (50 gp). A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (50 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1000 gp).