Description: A plain young-adult man, he typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep black leather and dull tan iron scale mail. His hair is black, silky, and of moderate length. His blue eyes peer out from beneath his top black hat.

Personality: He considers himself the protector of his home. He feels this is his duty and calling. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage son.

History: When he was but 8 years old his parents immigrated from the south. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a son. He has been saving his money to try and buy his brother's freedom.

Motivation: To clean up the streets; and marry his brother to traveling adventurers

Bonds: Attractive, Guardian, Family, Immigrant, In love. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: Gold and ruby ring (2000 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (2500 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. He wears a deerstalker hat to hide his balding. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He speaks before he thinks and is too direct. 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: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Aerdeth was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world; and retire the richest man in the north

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Mentor. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: Deep green spinel (140 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A middle-aged man, he dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head, and is pretty ugly. His golden hair is heavily combed to the right. His blue eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He never wears the same outfit twice, unless he absolutely has to.

History: Soveliss was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his mother was employed at, doing general labor. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Herbalist hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To clean up the streets; and to protect his home

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Guardian, Poor. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 1300 gp.

Description: This man dresses in brown turtlenecks beneath a grey coat with brown slacks, and sports empty pouches on his belt. He has a long black beard with little hanging trinkets. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help; and seeks redemption

Ideals: Professionalism, Logical. Flaws: Insane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 4000 gp. Star ruby (700 gp). Aquamarine (300 gp). Pink pearl (50 gp). Moss agate (6 gp). Deep blue spinel (300 gp). Onyx (20 gp). Violet garnet (300 gp). Blue quartz (6 gp). Jade (50 gp). Citrine (20 gp). Aquamarine (300 gp). Eye agate (6 gp).

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what he was had he not made sure his armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit he dresses well, wearing green shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time. His silver hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a dagger scrunchie. He has gleaming, smiling amber eyes.

Personality: He will rave to anyone who will listen. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father 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 was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally.

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Insane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 500 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (500 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (140 gp).