Description: He is lean but muscular and is wearing a long, grey cloak. His hair is cut close to his head. His gray eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, he has a hard time making friends. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Through the years after Varis was born, his mother became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the south. Varis's mother didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He leaves a trail of broken hearts and full pockets wherever he goes.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and to unite with his brother

Flaws: Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Family. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 7000 sp.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears a grey feathered hat and grey clothes. His red hair is still thick. His brown eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: Heir to a fortune, his parents put a great deal of effort into curing his disease. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Architect.

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; and further expansion of business

Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Job, Rich, Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: This eastern man wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a blue coat. His clothes are grease stained in places. His silver hair is smooth and relatively long. His eyes are likewise violet. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. He loves being with his children and actually smiles when they are around. He would do anything for them. He dislikes his ex a great deal.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Slave Trader hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Map Maker they were divorced and he won custody of their son. He worked as a Slave Trader, and he later adopted a second son.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well; and regain custody of his son

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 8000 sp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (800 gp).

Description: He is a pot bellied western man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He likes to wear white tank tops with black pants. His red hair is cut short. His eyes are a pleasant amber.

Personality: He likes to brag about his accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. He has a small toy that he constantly fidgets with.

History: He was born in the west. 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. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Ideals: Athletic, Passionate. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic right leg, he wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a blue coat. His blonde hair is knotted and matted. His ears are large.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with poetry. He constantly tries to fill his life with poetry. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage son.

History: He was born in the north. Being born in the north, 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 north 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 south. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 120000 cp. Smoky quartz (60 gp). Chrysoberyl (80 gp). Golden yellow topaz (400 gp). Eye agate (12 gp). Sard (60 gp). Deep blue spinel (400 gp). Chrysoberyl (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.