Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a sweet of some kind. He wears suspenders and white workpants. His shirt is red, and he wears a heavy white leather apron most of the time, marred by sweets. He sports a flattop hair cut. His brown eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He is fiercely devoted to his mother, and views his mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-brother.

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. Like his mother and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Bookbinder. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Regain custody of his daughter.

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Military, Job. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 600 gp.

Description: He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. He has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. He has wavy golden hair. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He goes out his way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one he won't accept into his heart. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his writing with anyone who is interested.

History: Aelar was born the youngest of three triplets. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture; and doesn't want to be a carpenter and was forced into it by his family

Ideals: Optimist, Artistic. Bonds: Family, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 1600 gp. Chrysoberyl (60 gp). Black pearl (600 gp). Aquamarine (600 gp). Blue star sapphire (900 gp). Onyx (50 gp). Deep blue spinel (600 gp).

Description: He is wearing a long, blue cloak. He wears his white hair up. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is a man who does what he needs to. He will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. 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: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. His parents divorced when he was young, and his mother gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his mother, who blamed him for driving them apart. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and balancing his hectic life and new ploughman responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Criminal record, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 4000 sp.

Description: He is a pot bellied eastern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He is renowned for his bright pastel suits and hats. His blonde hair is long and unkept. His amber eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. 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 served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. Vanuath 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. Vanuath 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. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact.

Ideals: Athletic, Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Military, Criminal record. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 700 gp. Onyx (30 gp). Deep blue spinel (1000 gp). Citrine (30 gp). Zircon (30 gp). Aquamarine (1000 gp). Violet garnet (1000 gp). Violet garnet (1000 gp).

Description: A man of a pale complexion, he wears a black shirt with thin tan vertical stripes and white pants. He has done his best to style his red hair to look like a famous performer. His eyes are a pleasant amber.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. He has a small toy that he constantly fidgets with.

History: He was born in the south, but his parents moved at a very young age to the north. 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: He is content; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Addict, Mundane. Bonds: Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 400 gp.