Description: An older man who wears a white shirt, with a blue mid length shorts with blue tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them, he is not a threatening figure. His blonde hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: Here is a man who knows he is the smartest in the room. He talks down to others constantly. He does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for him. He lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He left for the east, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He seems to be bored by most things; and he is wracked by social anxiety

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Mundane, Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 300 gp. Banded agate (6 gp). Rich purple corundum (1000 gp). Rhodochrosite (6 gp). Black pearl (1100 gp).

Description: He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. He has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. He has wavy golden hair. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He goes out his way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one he won't accept into his heart. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his writing with anyone who is interested.

History: Aelar was born the youngest of three triplets. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture; and doesn't want to be a carpenter and was forced into it by his family

Ideals: Optimist, Artistic. Bonds: Family, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 1600 gp. Chrysoberyl (60 gp). Black pearl (600 gp). Aquamarine (600 gp). Blue star sapphire (900 gp). Onyx (50 gp). Deep blue spinel (600 gp).

Description: He is wearing a long, blue cloak. He wears his white hair up. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is a man who does what he needs to. He will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. He cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist he will grow angry at them.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. 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. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and balancing his hectic life and new ploughman responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Criminal record, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 4000 sp.

Description: He is a pot bellied eastern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He is renowned for his bright pastel suits and hats. His blonde hair is long and unkept. His amber eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. Vanuath 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. Vanuath decided he wanted neither the life of his mother 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 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: Athletic, Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Military, Criminal record. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 700 gp. Onyx (30 gp). Deep blue spinel (1000 gp). Citrine (30 gp). Zircon (30 gp). Aquamarine (1000 gp). Violet garnet (1000 gp). Violet garnet (1000 gp).

Description: A man of a pale complexion, he wears a black shirt with thin tan vertical stripes and white pants. He has done his best to style his red hair to look like a famous performer. His eyes are a pleasant amber.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. He has a small toy that he constantly fidgets with.

History: He was born in the south, but his parents moved at a very young age to the north. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. 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: He is content; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Addict, Mundane. Bonds: Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 400 gp.