Description: This dark-skinned male wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with yellow lining and desert motifs. He is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. He sports a flattop hair cut. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are hazel.

Personality: He is a hateful person. He taunts others and blames them for his problems. He lacks moral complications. He does what he is told to by employers but not much else. He spends his money on whatever he fancies at the time.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. He sought a place where he would be rewarded solely on the merits of his skills. This search led him directly into Locksmith work with an outfit from a few towns over. Locksmith work suited him well, and with each successful project, he earned more gold and more respect from his peers. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Locksmith.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and to be a bricklayer again

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Slave. Occupation: Locksmith

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

Possessions: 1100 gp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (400 gp). Finely wrought small gold bracelet (90 gp).

Description: He is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. He carries a battered longsword and tarnished glaive as well. With bright red hair and a scraggly beard. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. Traki is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his sisters into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Being born in the south, 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 south 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 north. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and to unite with his sister

Ideals: Fighting, Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is dressed in earthy colors with a black and white handkerchief worn on his right side. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. His hair is cut close to his head. He is baby faced.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. His job bores him to no end. He has decided to make it more interesting.

History: When he was but 8 years old his parents immigrated from the north. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Aramil 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 Aramil. He has been saving his money to try and buy his brother's freedom.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother; and he desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Joker. Bonds: Adventurer, Criminal record, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 20 pp. Tourmaline (80 gp). Chrysoberyl (80 gp). Violet garnet (700 gp). Black opal (600 gp).

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he prefers to wear brown pants and tee shirts. He keeps his brown hair in a flapper bob. His brown eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He believes mankind has become decadent and spoiled by the march of civilization and an end should come to life as we know it. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: His father raised him in a mountain cabin. His first spouse was a Herbalist, they had one son, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 12 years.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and he doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes

Ideals: Impeccable. Bonds: Nature, Rich, Family, Job. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 140 pp.

Description: Standing 5'2", this man wears brown trousers with blue and brown striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. His golden hair is smooth and relatively long. He has violet eyes and a brown hat with a blue feather.

Personality: He is fixated on the number 51. He counts his steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. He seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. More though he will beg to come along on any journeys. He will attempt to stowaway on any ship he can in the hopes that it will get him further away.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform 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: Retire the richest man in the north; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Ideals: Persistence, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insane, Ugly. Bonds: Slave. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (900 gp).