Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He is dressed in an above average manner. He has a white handlebar mustache and slicked back white hair. His fierce gray eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: Trained by his father for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. His father was a soldier and died while he was still young. Adran was left his father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. After a long history of fighting, Adran and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear; and he is wracked by social anxiety

Flaws: Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Military. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 200 gp. Hematite (15 gp). Moss agate (15 gp). Alexandrite (1600 gp). Blue quartz (15 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a tea of some kind. He wears a black cloak and cross-gartered grey stockings, marred by teas. His auburn hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He will rave to anyone who will listen. 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: Laucian was born in the south. At a young age he loved to build and create. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Laucian 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 Laucian. 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 he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 30 pp. Zircon (80 gp). Azurite (12 gp). Moss agate (12 gp). Golden yellow topaz (400 gp). Blue quartz (12 gp). Chalcedony (80 gp). Blue quartz (12 gp). Bloodstone (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: His right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He dresses in blue turtlenecks beneath a green coat with brown slacks. His auburn hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. His eyes are likewise violet. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: A grumpy guy he will invite people to lunch so he can critique them. Yet he still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. He is kind towards other men and children and will generally offer men help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to him.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. Through the years after Aust was born, his mother became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the east. Aust's mother didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He used his abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic, Insane. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 10000 cp. Star rose quartz (50 gp). 1 Magnifying glass.

Description: He is a physically imposing dark-skinned man. He wears a black tunic with blue highlights, and long black pants that bunch up around his shoes. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy chestnut hair. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. He is an amazing painter.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and regain custody of his daughter

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Family. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 9000 sp. Rose (20 gp).

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy golden stubble. He is dressed in a clean blue cloak covering his clean studded leather. He has a hunchback. His hair, while still mostly golden, has prominent grey streaks. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He also hits on women, regardless of circumstances.

History: Heir to a fortune, his parents put a great deal of effort into curing his disease. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. 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: Wants his loneliness to end.

Flaws: Ugly, Depressed, Disease. Bonds: Has a crush, Rich. Occupation: Stylist

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

Possessions: 600 gp. Chrysoberyl (90 gp).