Description: This light-skinned male is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. He is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. He keeps his brown hair in a flapper bob. This brown eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. As he has aged he has sought to do reparations for his actions as a youth. He is also making sure that his compatriots who never received punishment for their crimes are brought to justice.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Ahvain 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 Ahvain. He would ruin relationships and cause injury. He was reprimanded several times before being given his current form and forced to learn humility.

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.

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Depressed, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 900 gp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (300 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (3000 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (3000 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (500 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a husky man, who wears tattered old clothes. His head has been shaved. His green eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He has two modes he varies between. On the job he is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job he is a party animal. He has a cruel streak; something he gained from his previous mentor. He harbors resentment against his former mentor.

History: Trained by his mother for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. His parents divorced when he was young, and his mother gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his mother, who blamed him for driving them apart. After a long history of fighting, Adran and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and expand his business

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Mentor, Military. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 6000 gp. Golden pearl (130 gp). Aquamarine (1300 gp). Aquamarine (1300 gp). Amber (130 gp). Azurite (15 gp). Sard (20 gp). Hematite (15 gp). Tourmaline (130 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he likes to wear ponchos typically of a light brown in addition to tight pants. He has shaved his head bald. He has several tiny ruby earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is a Mayor first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. A true patriot, Naal would do anything for his country. He is fiercely protective of his fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. His father was very strict, and drilled into him lessons on being the perfect gentleman. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and nothing but the best is good enough for him

Ideals: Impeccable, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Job, Military. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 70 pp. Black pearl (1400 gp). Aquamarine (1400 gp). Aquamarine (1400 gp). Sardonyx (40 gp). Deep blue spinel (1400 gp). Chrysoprase (40 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a tan armored body suit, with a simple blue line shooting up and back down. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. He wears his chestnut hair down. His eyes are brown and catlike.

Personality: He likes to fabricate stories about his past exploits and how crazy he is, but in actuality he is rather bland. He is fiercely devoted to his father, and views his father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-brother.

History: Born to a Brewer, his father struggled to pay the bills. Being born in the west, 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 west 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 east. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Poor. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 700 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. His tied-back hair is silver. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep hazel.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: Gifted from a young age, Heian studied abroad. 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. Being a Carpenter 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 has decided he is irredeemable; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 1000 gp. Moonstone (70 gp). Blue sapphire (1500 gp). Violet garnet (700 gp). Zircon (70 gp).