Description: An older man who prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs, he is not a threatening figure. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. He takes great joy in being the best Painter in town.

History: His mother raised him in a mountain cabin. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered poetry. 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: Sabotage a competitor; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Job, Nature. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 400 gp. Amethyst (160 gp). Azurite (12 gp). Rock crystal (60 gp). Golden yellow topaz (800 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking northern young adult. He is wearing a long, brown cloak. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His golden hair is thinning but still full. His violet eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He also hits on women, regardless of circumstances.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Traki 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 Traki. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: To end his boredom; and he is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Slave, Has a crush, Criminal record. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 900 gp.

Description: He is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest, and he perpetually has his bow ready. He wears his red hair up in a very large beehive style do. His brown eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He believes mankind has become decadent and spoiled by the march of civilization and an end should come to life as we know it. He is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with his old comrades. He has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Caeldrim grew up listening to his father's many stories. Like his father and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Baker. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

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 desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Nature, Adventurer, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 1000 gp.

Description: He is in excellent shape and wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. He wears his red hair up. His violet eyes are slightly larger than normal.

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 feeds upon the attention of others.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. Through the years after Laucian was born, his mother became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the south. Laucian's mother didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. After a long history of fighting, Laucian and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for him.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Selfish, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Attractive. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 200 gp. Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (30 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (2200 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (2100 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (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 very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a violet coat. His auburn hair is heavily combed to the left. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He never wears the same outfit twice, unless he absolutely has to.

History: His martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Cook. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Engraver they were divorced and he won custody of their daughter. He worked as a Cook, and he later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Bonds: Job, Family, Slave. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 200 gp. Alexandrite (800 gp).