Description: He wears professional attire. He has a very tight haircut. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. As he has aged he has sought to do reparations for his actions as a youth. He is also making sure that his compatriots who never received punishment for their crimes are brought to justice.

History: He was born in the north, but his parents moved at a very young age to the south. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Theren 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 Theren. He became a Shipwright soon after.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture; and he is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Justice. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Criminal record, Immigrant. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 2000 gp. A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (140 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (400 gp). Solid gold idol (1200 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (2300 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (400 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A moderately attractive man, he wears a red shirt, with a tan mid length shorts with tan tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. He wears a colorful flower in his silver hair. This blue eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

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 has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: Traki was born with his father's beautiful face. In his 15th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his father impaled in their home, and his mother beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and marry his brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Persistence, Justice. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 250 pp. Sardonyx (70 gp). Blue quartz (8 gp). Jet (120 gp). Blue star sapphire (1400 gp). Iolite (70 gp). Bloodstone (70 gp). Black pearl (800 gp). Violet garnet (800 gp). Deep blue spinel (800 gp). Iolite (70 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: An older man who wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty black coat over it, he is not a threatening figure. His tied-back hair is auburn. He has gleaming, smiling brown eyes.

Personality: He loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. He would rather hide behind his crafts than deal with other people.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered painting. He has never given up on his painting dream.

Motivation: To protect his home; and retire the richest man in the east

Ideals: Opinionated, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 500 pp. Jasper (20 gp). Carnelian (20 gp). Clear bright green emerald (4000 gp). Moonstone (20 gp). Lapis lazuli (6 gp). Star ruby (1000 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1600 gp). Sardonyx (20 gp). Chrysoprase (20 gp). Aquamarine (1600 gp). Violet garnet (1600 gp). Aquamarine (1600 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He prefers to wear flannel, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 5'2" when asserting himself. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. He refers to his adoptive mother for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: Expand his business; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, Religious, Job. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: The man speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. He seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if he got out from a pool a few moments ago. He dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. His hair is short and white. His eyes are likewise hazel. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Painter born in the past three hundred years. Any perceived weakness will be pressed and exploited. He is seen as merciless and passionate.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. His childhood dream was to be a Dilettante, but he was a colossal failure. He left for the east, certain he would find work there.

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

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 270 pp. Violet garnet (700 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (1600 gp). 1 Minor magic item.