Description: This eastern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He wears a green tunic with brown highlights, and long tan pants that bunch up around his shoes. His auburn hair is braided into rings. His green eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. He also hits on women, regardless of circumstances.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. In his youth he was part of a gang. He got caught, but did not rat out his comrades and served his time in prison. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Mayor for hire.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends; and he has a crush on the local jeweler

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Has a crush, Criminal record, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 130 pp. Alexandrite (1200 gp). Violet garnet (1200 gp). Sardonyx (50 gp). Deep green spinel (60 gp). Rhodochrosite (12 gp).

Description: He wears tattered old clothes. He has done his best to style his white hair to look like a famous performer. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep hazel.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: The child of northern immigrants he idolized his father. Aust was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Aust decided he wanted neither the life of his father nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

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

Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Religious, Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 600 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (500 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears a tan coat over a brown low-cut shirt, and a broad hat upon his head. He has moderate length white hair. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: Efferil is a sociable creature first and foremost. He loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. He can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: Efferil hails from a village terrorized by brigands. In his 17th year, his parents were killed by a brigands raid, leaving Efferil alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He left for the north, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He wants revenge against brigands; and a deep hatred of brigands

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Ugly, Forgetful. Bonds: Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: Jasper (30 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1100 gp). Aquamarine (1100 gp). Black pearl (1100 gp). Chrysoberyl (160 gp).

Description: This man is tall and muscular. He wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with deerstalker hat. His white hair is matted, messy, and big. His blue eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He is a very happy person and has lots of energy. To put it simply, he's a very lovable idiot. He is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Optimist, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 140 pp. Aquamarine (400 gp). Coral (140 gp). Citrine (30 gp). Rock crystal (30 gp). Brown-green garnet (140 gp). Hematite (13 gp). Freshwater pearl (13 gp).

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing black cape and mantle trimmed with soft yellow waves gently in the breeze. His hair is always cut to a buzz. His eyes are likewise gray. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of dire rats may trigger it at times.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. A freak accident while working with his Ruler father left him crippled. 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: Someone believes him a fraud.

Flaws: Ugly, Secretive, Disease. Bonds: Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: Just what you see.