Description: This northern man is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. His clothes are grease stained in places. His red hair is braided into rings. He is baby faced.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. He is an amazing painter.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. 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 drifted from career to career and currently works as a Courier.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Job, Military. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 240 pp. Old masterpiece painting (2000 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (2000 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (1000 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (1000 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A 5'4" southern man, he is dressed in an above average manner. His brown hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He is a great chef.

History: Gifted from a young age, Aust studied abroad. Aust 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. Aust 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 is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

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: Gifted. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: Amethyst (160 gp). Banded agate (4 gp). Alexandrite (1000 gp). Blue quartz (4 gp).

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He typically wears grey cloth garments or leather armor. He wears a top hat to hide his balding. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep hazel.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with dancing. He constantly tries to fill his life with dancing. His philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. A freak accident while working with his Apothecary mother left him crippled. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: To be a Apothecary again; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Artistic, Optimist. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 2000 gp. Emerald (800 gp). Zircon (40 gp). Sard (40 gp). Pink pearl (100 gp). Golden yellow topaz (300 gp). Moonstone (40 gp). Azurite (11 gp). Alexandrite (300 gp). Amber (100 gp). Moss agate (11 gp). Chrysoberyl (100 gp). Obsidian (11 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He is of a modest build and height, but he carries himself more imposing than he is. He wears a green cloak and cross-gartered blue stockings. His head has been shaved. His eyes are brown.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He spends most of his days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There he gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: Erevan hails from a village terrorized by brigands. Erevan was born on a far northern island where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Armorer. He left for the north, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends.

Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Adventurer, Enemies, Immigrant. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: His right side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He wears well tailored suits and hats with beautiful decoration. He is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. His golden hair is matted, messy, and big. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He is mildly Elf supremacist, though he does not identify as such. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Painter but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: He was born into a rich family. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Rael 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 Rael. Being a Painter 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: He possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal.

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 400 pp. Finely wrought small gold bracelet (90 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (200 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (3000 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). Gold and ruby ring (12000 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (700 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1600 gp).