Description: This man is tall and muscular. He dresses well, wearing red shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His gray eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: While he is on the job, he is grim and serious. He understands how dangerous the world is and the need to stay safe. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions; and seeks redemption

Ideals: Athletic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 200 gp. Carnelian (40 gp). Eye agate (12 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This eastern man is abnormally tall. He is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. His white hair and beard is wavy and long. His violet unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He works hard and plays hard.

History: Traki was born the youngest of three triplets. A few years later when the south was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He left for the east, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister

Flaws: Disease, Depressed, Hedonist. Bonds: Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 4000 sp.

Description: A man of a pale complexion, he prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. He carries his fan with him everywhere and carries himself as the perfect gentleman. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. He has gleaming, smiling amber eyes.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Banker born in the past three hundred years. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: Berrian was raised in a hard working conservative environment. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. Some 6 years later his spouse died after the birth of his daughter. Heartbroken, Berrian never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his daughter whom he trained as his mother had trained him before.

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

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Job, In love. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 1000 gp. Hematite (16 gp). Moss agate (16 gp). Eye agate (16 gp). Deep blue spinel (300 gp). Alexandrite (300 gp). White pearl (100 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He stands about 4'8" and wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. His left hand appears badly burned and disfigured. His brown hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. He is baby faced.

Personality: Prone to second guessing himself, he comes off as nervous. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Slave. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 600 gp. Golden yellow topaz (600 gp).

Description: His right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. He has no hair. His gray eyes peer out from beneath his top yellow hat.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Fortune-teller responsibilities is difficult; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Insomniac. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 200 gp. Red-brown spinel (50 gp).