Description: He prefers to wear black pants and tee shirts, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 5'4" when asserting himself. His brown hair is heavily combed to the right. His ears are large.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Merchant arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. His father was a soldier and died while he was still young. Riardon was left his father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Merchant for the past few years.

Motivation: He is greedy; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Rich, Military. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 8000 sp. Black pearl (1500 gp).

Description: This slender man stands about 4'11". He wears a grey coat over a white low-cut shirt, and a top hat upon his head. His hair is cut close to his head. His eyes are green and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends he is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy himself. He is stubborn though. He always likes to keep a trick up his sleeve. He likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if he feels he even has a chance of losing.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Traki was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He moved out north to avoid the crime he committed. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Criminal record, Mentor, Religious. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 1000 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is tall and muscular. He is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest. He wears his red hair down. He has brown eyes and a white hat with a grey feather.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. He will do just about anything if he becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this he is easily convinced.

History: His druidic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His parents enrolled him in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that he could practice his druidic talents. 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: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Athletic, Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Has a crush. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 800 gp.

Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He wears his blonde hair up. His amber eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. He feeds upon the attention of others.

History: Gifted from a young age, Paelias studied abroad. He always admired psionic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Athletic, Fighting, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 30000 sp. Jet (70 gp). Golden pearl (70 gp). Azurite (14 gp). Moss agate (14 gp). Sard (70 gp). Freshwater pearl (14 gp). Black pearl (800 gp).

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what he was had he not made sure his armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit he wears a tan shirt with thin black vertical stripes and tan pants. He keeps his long auburn hair kept up in a rat tail. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are hazel.

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. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing writing.

History: He was born in the south. 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 east. He has never given up on his writing dream.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Bookbinder and was forced into it by his family.

Ideals: Persistence, Artistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 4000 gp. Rock crystal (40 gp). Chalcedony (40 gp). Deep blue spinel (500 gp). Carnelian (40 gp). Aquamarine (500 gp). Hematite (7 gp). Star ruby (500 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (7 gp). Sard (40 gp).