Description: His skin is bronze and flawless. He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. He is an epitome of beauty. His long blonde hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He misses his glory days as an athlete. He does not mind his job, but it is boring in comparison. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: A powerful slaver made him what he is. His parents enrolled him in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that he could practice his necromantic talents. He was granted necromantic powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and retire the richest man in the west

Ideals: Athletic, Entrepeneur, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 250 pp.

Description: He is a mite stocky and wears suspenders and pastel workpants. His shirt is tan, and he wears a heavy pastel leather apron most of the time. His brown hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His ears are large.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. Flattery will make him almost putty in your hands.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. He moved out south to avoid the crime he committed. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Selfish. Bonds: Military, Criminal record. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 370 pp. Moss agate (9 gp). Blue quartz (9 gp). Chrysoprase (30 gp). Black pearl (1600 gp).

Description: He is a physically imposing dark-skinned man. He dresses like a well dressed Herbalist does. He has black hair. His skin is flawless and his brown eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. He has a habit of throwing himself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. A gifted student he started as a Fisher, but he got bored and became a Herbalist. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic, Impulsive. Bonds: Job, Attractive. Occupation: Herbalist

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

Possessions: 170 pp. An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (120 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (120 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He has the majority of his body covered in plate. He is portly but not overly obese. His silver hair and beard is wavy and long. His eyes are blue and catlike.

Personality: He seems absolutely devoid of it. He stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. 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: The child of western immigrants he idolized his father. His father disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his father, he was betrayed dozens of times. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

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

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. His hair is always cut to a buzz. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. 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-sister.

History: He was born at the edge of vast desert. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Miner hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Marry his sister to traveling adventurers; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Family, Nature. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 700 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.