Description: 4'7" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He wears well tailored suits and hats with beautiful decoration. He is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. His hair is black and curly. His eyes are a pleasant brown.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Mortician arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He inherited a moderately successful company from his mother. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. He used his abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: He uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs; and he feels kind of lost in life

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 300 gp. Bloodstone (40 gp). Blue sapphire (700 gp). Deep blue spinel (700 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He has a long silver beard with little hanging trinkets. His fierce amber eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He has always had a great fascination with Elven culture. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: Halimath was born in the west. At a young age he loved to build and create. Being born in the west, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the west for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way east. 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: Elven compassion; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Optimist, Persistence. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1800 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (40 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (40 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (300 gp).

Description: He wears a brown vest and prefers yellow and brown shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. He wears his red hair down. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation he is generally quite perceptive. He notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. He is fiercely devoted to his mother, and views his mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-brother.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. The family's rival house kidnapped his sister with the intent that his sister marry their son to gain control of contested properties. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and to reunite with his absent mother

Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac, Mundane. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 2000 gp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (700 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). A silver and pearl hairclip (100 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (4000 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is well dressed, constantly wearing a brown suit, tan shirt, and black tie. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. His silver hair is still thick. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He is cool and collected. He likes to make quips and puns whenever he does anything. He also makes a point to compliment his superiors and flatter them. He will often invite strangers home for dinner and talk their ears off. He cares deeply for his spouse and does his best to make sure his guests look presentable.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. He has had some formal singing training, and achieved minor success. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: He seems to be bored by most things; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Ideals: Disciplined, Optimist, Artistic. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: In love. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 4000 sp. Sardonyx (30 gp). Smoky quartz (30 gp). Amber (90 gp). White opal (1100 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He stands about 4'7" and sports tan clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. His left hand appears badly burned and disfigured. His brown hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his violet eyes.

Personality: Quarion speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. He is clearly well-traveled and educated. He takes great joy in being the best Baker in town.

History: Quarion hails from a village terrorized by giants. He was an apprentice working in his father's forge. He tends to his Baker job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

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

Ideals: Impeccable. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 3000 sp. Blue quartz (6 gp). Obsidian (6 gp). Rich purple corundum (1300 gp). Jet (40 gp). Alexandrite (900 gp).