Description: He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. His chestnut hair is braided into rings. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. He struck the Bookbinder job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and retire the richest man in the east

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Rich. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 800 gp. Golden yellow topaz (600 gp).

Description: Runty and weak-looking, he wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his pickaxe with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. His blonde hair, when down, is lengthy. His green eyes peer out from beneath his Stetson brown hat.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. He is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: He got into the Bookbinder business at a young age. 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 tends to his Bookbinder job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact; and he is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Poor, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 600 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a physically imposing dark-skinned man. He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized black coat. His auburn hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. His blue unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. He enjoys reading and quiet.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Peren was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Disease, Terse. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 2000 gp. Pink pearl (160 gp). Deep blue spinel (600 gp).

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears a green cloak and cross-gartered brown stockings. His hair is black and very short. His hazel unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: Heian was born with his mother's beautiful face. He was one of the best in his class, and was picked up by his current employer. He quickly showed his capability and was soon promoted to a head role. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Jeweler.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day; and expand his business

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 900 gp. Star ruby (1100 gp). Pink pearl (140 gp). Tourmaline (140 gp). Freshwater pearl (16 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing tan cape and mantle trimmed with soft black waves gently in the breeze. His blonde hair is lengthy. He is baby faced.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He constantly seizes attention wherever he goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. He likes to think of himself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: Born in the north to a Architect, Beiro learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: He uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Job. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 1100 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.