Description: His left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He wears a fancy red suit. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy white hair. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He goes out his way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one he won't accept into his heart. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: His mother raised him in a mountain cabin. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. Being a Barber 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: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and a rival would like him out of the picture

Ideals: Optimist, Justice. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Criminal record, Slave. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 110 pp.

Description: He is lean but muscular and wears many layers of old clothing at all times. His chestnut hair has been sun bleached extensively. His gray eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He is a Performer first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. He likes to tell stories.

History: His father raised him in a mountain cabin. His mother took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Performer for the past few years.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and balancing his hectic life and new performer responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Poor, Job, Nature. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 20 pp. A delicate brass dragon egg (50 gp). Jeweled anklet (2000 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1700 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (40 gp).

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears a fine chain shirt which he covers with brown colored cloaks and clothing. He keeps his golden hair in a pixie cut. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He speaks before he thinks and is too direct. He disdains his fellow southerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the south. Being born in the south, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the south for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way west. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his sons to still be retired.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent mother; and marry his brother to traveling adventurers

Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive, Poor, Family. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 1500 gp. Red garnet (60 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. His small hat is riddled with cuts and holes. His violet eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He hates goblins. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. His family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The father sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. He saw this and took pride in his father's willingness to do anything to win. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Adventurer, Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 10 pp. Jet (120 gp). White opal (1000 gp). Golden pearl (120 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears red trousers with black and violet striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly bows and hammers. His chestnut hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep blue.

Personality: He is irritable and easily angered. He is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use his stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. His mother took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. He has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east; and seeks redemption

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Criminal record, Slave, Nature. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 3000 gp. Black opal (1400 gp). Hematite (11 gp). Violet garnet (700 gp). Blue quartz (11 gp). Brown-green garnet (80 gp). Bloodstone (30 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.