Description: This fat northern man has a bulbous nose and dresses like a well dressed Engraver does. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His blonde hair is long and unkept. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Engraver who has hired him part-time. 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: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. He was one of the best in his class, and was picked up by his current employer. He quickly showed his capability and was soon promoted to a head role. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Expand his business; and regain custody of his son

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Has a crush, Family. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 3000 gp. A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (150 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: 4'11" and muscular, this western man wears a tight fitting red shirt and pants. He wears his black hair up. His eyes are likewise amber. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He likes to make people angry or surprised. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: A powerful necromancer made him what he is. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. After a long history of fighting, Dayereth and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and he's in love

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Shy. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 2300 gp. Blue star sapphire (1200 gp). Blue star sapphire (1200 gp). Rock crystal (60 gp). Black star sapphire (1200 gp). Rhodochrosite (8 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is in excellent shape and wears bulky green painted plate armor. His hair is blonde and curly. His eyes are green and beady.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He is accommodating to his spouse and as such limits his hospitality. He is brave and levelheaded in the face of danger and has proven himself a capable leader.

History: A powerful wizard made him what he is. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: In love, Mentor. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 4000 gp. Black pearl (1200 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (4 gp). Chalcedony (40 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking eastern young adult. He wears a white tunic with black highlights, and long yellow pants that bunch up around his shoes. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His head has been shaved. His brown eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: The man has a huge range of feeling. He will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how he will be a better person from this day on. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: His mother raised him in a mountain cabin. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Riardon 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 Riardon. Being a Barkeep kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

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 he possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Flaws: Ugly, Emotional. Bonds: Slave, Rich, Nature, Criminal record. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 11000 sp. Bloodstone (80 gp). Black pearl (1300 gp). Freshwater pearl (6 gp). Lapis lazuli (6 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (500 gp). Aquamarine (1300 gp). Brown-green garnet (80 gp). Deep blue spinel (1300 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A thin man, he clearly needs to put on some weight, but he still has a lot of muscle. He dresses in black turtlenecks beneath a blue coat with tan slacks. He wears his black hair up in a very large beehive style do. He has gleaming, smiling brown eyes.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: He comes from a rich southern family. 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 north. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: To unite with his sister; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Athletic, Joker, Professionalism. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 500 gp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (800 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1000 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (2000 gp). 1 Minor magic item.