Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he is typically in his Herbalist uniform. With a patchy golden beard and wild golden hair. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: He was raised by priests from a young age. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Joker. Bonds: Job, Rich, Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 4000 sp.

Description: This dark-skinned male wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with feathered hat. He is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. His black hair is cut short. His eyes are likewise hazel.

Personality: Uthemar hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his dancing career. He is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: His martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Uthemar 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 Uthemar. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear; and he possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted, Optimist. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (80 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1500 gp). Old masterpiece painting (2400 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (1800 gp).

Description: This slender man stands about 5'1". He wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). He sports a flattop hair cut. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He is a jovial happy person, but he is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Tanner arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He was one of the best in his class, and was picked up by his current employer. He quickly showed his capability and was soon promoted to a head role. He has achieved small success as a Tanner.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Tanner and was forced into it by his family; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Optimist, Professionalism. Bonds: Rich, Job, Family. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 60 pp. Obsidian (12 gp). Moss agate (12 gp). Sardonyx (20 gp). Azurite (12 gp). Red garnet (50 gp). Amber (50 gp). Azurite (12 gp). Eye agate (12 gp). Lapis lazuli (12 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: With black face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he wears dull green sweaters, loose tan pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath his sweater he keeps a concealed glaive, just in case. His white hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. His blue eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He has two modes he varies between. On the job he is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job he is a party animal. He receives visions of the future at random moments

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. 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 north. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and wants to raise his children well

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Addict, Disease. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 800 pp. Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1800 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (180 gp). Solid gold idol (900 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (3000 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (300 gp).

Description: He wears just a brown suit. His skin is fair and his fingers are delicate and long. His hair is golden, silky, and of moderate length. His violet eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. He is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories he has discovered

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He has been saving his money to try and buy his sister's freedom.

Motivation: Expand his business.

Ideals: Logical. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Slave, Family. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 4000 sp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.