Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He wears a simple grey robe with yellow stripes complete with hood. He has a very tight haircut. His amber eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: Arannis is depressed about a lot of things. He tends to be a nihilist. He receives visions of the future at random moments

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Arannis 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. Arannis 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. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable; and he is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 50000 cp.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes.. He wears a small hat to hide his balding. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

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 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: He was born in the west. 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. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Knight they were divorced and he won custody of their daughter. He worked as a Unemployed, and he later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 600 gp.

Description: This malnourished man wears bulky blue painted plate armor. He has silver hair. His brown eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He likes to fabricate stories about his past exploits and how crazy he is, but in actuality he is rather bland. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing singing.

History: His druidic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. At a young age both his parents were killed in an accident. His uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took him in and had him trained in basic self defense. He has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions; and to find somewhere to settle down

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 110 pp. Coral (60 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This younger middle-aged man wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment, and a wedding ring on his left hand. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: His arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted, Professionalism. Bonds: In love, Slave. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 1900 gp.

Description: This tall, slender man is wearing a long, blue cloak. He has dyed his greying black hair a little too much giving a sharp black color. His half smiles and hazel eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. He invites people to come help in his community garden.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Aust was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. Like his father and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Laborer. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Laborer for the past few years.

Motivation: He made a deal with a demon which lead to his current lot in life, and he's becoming increasingly nervous about it; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor, Job, Debt. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 1600 gp. Aquamarine (1100 gp). Banded agate (6 gp). Blue star sapphire (600 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.