Description: He wears a black cloak and cross-gartered blue stockings. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. He wears his white hair up in a very large beehive style do. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He considers himself the protector of his home. He feels this is his duty and calling. 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: The child of eastern immigrants he idolized his father. In his 20th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his father impaled in their home, and his mother beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and to clean up the streets

Flaws: Fearful, Greedy. Bonds: Guardian, Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 1900 gp. Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (90 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (600 gp).

Description: This southern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He wears brown painted combat armor at almost all times. He wears his red hair up in a very large beehive style do. He wears a mask on his face.

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 is fiercely devoted to his father, and views his father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-brother.

History: Born in the south to a Unemployed, Naal learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. Being born in the south, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the south for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way east. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Family, Job. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 500 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (3000 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: His skin is bronze and flawless. He dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. He is an epitome of beauty. He wears a colorful flower in his chestnut hair. His eyes are green and catlike.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the south. He is obsessed with his god.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions.

Ideals: Pacifist. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Military, Criminal record. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 8000 sp. Freshwater pearl (4 gp). Freshwater pearl (4 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He dresses well, wearing green shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time. His black hair is smooth and relatively long. His brown unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He speaks before he thinks and is too direct. He has a cruel streak; something he gained from his previous mentor. He harbors resentment against his former mentor.

History: Varis was born with his father's beautiful face. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world; and he's repulsed by the pc

Flaws: Disease, Impulsive, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 1500 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Cook. His brown hair is singed and shortened. His amber eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

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 is always in debt, since he spends his money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and to be a butcher again

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive, Disease. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 900 gp. Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (2600 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (90 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.