Description: This western man is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. His clothes are grease stained in places. His blonde hair is cut short. His blue eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He is curt in most of his responses. He prefers to keep his word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. He cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist he will grow angry at them.

History: He got into the Barber business at a young age. 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. After a long history of fighting, Paelias and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Flaws: Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 12000 sp. Red-brown spinel (150 gp). Obsidian (6 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This western man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He typically wears tan cloth garments or leather armor. His hair is chestnut and curly. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: His voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl he speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of his tone. He does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for him. He lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. Like his father and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Soapmaker. He became a Soapmaker soon after.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Soapmaker responsibilities is difficult; and he is greedy

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Cynical. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 1000 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. He wears a Stetson hat to hide his balding. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines amber.

Personality: Peren is depressed about a lot of things. He tends to be a nihilist. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the east. His family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The father sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. He saw this and took pride in his father's willingness to do anything to win. Being a Dilettante kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Criminal record, Poor. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 1400 gp. A roughly beaten golden orb (140 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1700 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (1000 gp). Jeweled anklet (1000 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is an average looking western male in his early mid-life. He wears a grey feathered hat and grey clothes. His hair is auburn, silky, and of moderate length. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: Calm and collected, he is a well trained Barkeep. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: His father raised him in a mountain cabin. Rael 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. Rael 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 drifted from career to career and currently works as a Barkeep.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Religious, Nature, Criminal record. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 50 pp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He wears well tailored suits and hats with beautiful decoration. He is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. His hair is silver and curly. His eyes are blue and beady.

Personality: He has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. He is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with his big mouthed big gutted partner. His partner is his best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: Born in the west to a Armorer, Erevan learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. A gifted student he started as a Performer, but he got bored and became a Armorer. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 190 pp.