Description: This late middle aged man wears a tan vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His white leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his tan boots flare out at the collars and is in decent physical shape. He sports a flattop hair cut. His eyes are brown and catlike.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. He is very protective of his business, his home, and his spouse. He is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: Gifted from a young age, Mindartis studied abroad. Mindartis was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Mindartis decided he wanted neither the life of his mother nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and he is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Criminal record, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 900 gp. Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1400 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (60 gp).

Description: He is an average looking eastern male in his early mid-life. He likes to wear brown tank tops with black pants. His hair is auburn, silky, and of moderate length. His hazel eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: Hadarai is depressed about a lot of things. He tends to be a nihilist. He is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. After coming to the age of reason, Hadarai took it upon himself to study the divine arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: He loathes his own lifestyle.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Addict, Depressed, Disease. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 600 gp. A roughly beaten golden orb (50 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His silver hair is braided into rings. His hazel unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is a Bricklayer first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. Flattery will make him almost putty in your hands.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. A freak accident while working with his Bowyer mother left him crippled. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and to be a bowyer again

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Disease, Selfish. Bonds: Job, Religious. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 1800 gp. Alexandrite (1100 gp). Eye agate (4 gp). Pink diamond (4000 gp). Eye agate (4 gp). Rock crystal (30 gp). Violet garnet (1100 gp). Black star sapphire (1300 gp). Bloodstone (30 gp).

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking western young adult. He is dressed in earthy colors with a violet and blue handkerchief worn on his right side. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His tied-back hair is white. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: He was born in the west. In his youth he was a Guard, and wanted to be a champion fighter when he grew up. He was working during a period of war, and as one of the natives he lived in fear of joining the others in being slaughtered. He saw the brutality and swore off his fighting aspirations, taking his younger sister on his back after seeing his parents die, and fled the country. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Insane, PTSD. Bonds: Slave, Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 1100 gp. Rose (80 gp). Sard (80 gp). Zircon (80 gp).

Description: He dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. He carries with him a set of nunchakus on his belt, each one with a topaz on the hilt. His tied-back hair is black. His violet eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He is a hateful person. He taunts others and blames them for his problems. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: Trained by his mother for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. His family was turned out during the war. He and his family wandered north to less war torn lands. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic, PTSD. Bonds: Rich, Military. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Minor magic item.