Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a tea of some kind. He wears a pastel cloak and cross-gartered red stockings, marred by teas. He has wavy chestnut hair. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. 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: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Thervan was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. Thervan 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. Thervan decided he wanted neither the life of his father 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 since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: Regain custody of his son.

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, Mentor, Criminal record. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 8000 gp. Sard (30 gp). Freshwater pearl (11 gp). Rhodochrosite (11 gp). Obsidian (11 gp). Fire opal (1100 gp). Citrine (30 gp). Chalcedony (30 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He dresses well, wearing tan shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time. His chestnut hair and beard is wavy and long. His gray eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He misses his glory days as an athlete. He does not mind his job, but it is boring in comparison. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Roofer but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: He is content; and to end his boredom

Ideals: Athletic, Pacifist, Gifted. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears a grey shirt with thin tan vertical stripes and black pants. His red hair is singed and shortened. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: Naill hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his singing career. He always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Slave Trader business.

History: A child with a great deal of singing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Naill 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 Naill. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his sons to still be retired.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and doesn't want to be a slave trader and was forced into it by his family

Ideals: Artistic, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: An older man who wears a brown wide-brimmed hat and brown clothes, he is not a threatening figure. He has a very tight haircut. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: Calm and collected, he is a well trained Fortune-teller. He is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: He got into the Fortune-teller business at a young age. He was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. Recently the stress of being a Fortune-teller has made it difficult for him to sleep.

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 seeks redemption

Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Job, Criminal record, Adventurer. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 100 pp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic left leg, he wears professional attire. His hair is short and white. His skin is flawless and his hazel eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: He is a Ploughman first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: Born in the south his family was never financially stable. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He tends to his Ploughman job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Poor. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: Just what you see.