Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic left leg, he wears a tight fitting white shirt and pants. With a patchy golden beard and wild golden hair. His violet eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. He is ready at a moment's notice to give into his darker urges. He is a real pyromaniac and does not care who the fire hurts. He often ends up burning people alive in the fires he starts.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Vanuath 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 Vanuath. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable; and he feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Insane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears a simple blue robe with brown stripes complete with hood. He has styled his white hair well, parting it to the right. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when drow swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Ideals: Gifted, Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 1700 gp. Amber (40 gp). Freshwater pearl (9 gp). Chalcedony (30 gp). Rhodochrosite (9 gp). Brown-green garnet (40 gp). Azurite (9 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He tends to wear a large brown jacket. His hair is silver and curly. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He works hard and plays hard.

History: His necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His parents enrolled him in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that he could practice his necromantic talents. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: He's attracted to the PC; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Justice, Gifted, Logical. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Has a crush. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He wears grey painted combat armor at almost all times. He is physically well-built. He wears his black hair down. His ears are large.

Personality: He has schizophrenia that causes him to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. Aelar enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Born in the west to a Animal Trainer, Aelar learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. 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 Animal Trainer. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To be a Junk Dealer again.

Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Hedonist. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: With blue face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. He has no hair. He has gleaming, smiling blue eyes.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. He is obsessed with his god.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Cursed with vampirism at a very young age, Hadarai has worked very hard to control his curse. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and his religion dominates his actions

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 1000 pp. Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (400 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). 1 Medium magic item.