Description: This younger middle-aged man wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with black lining and desert motifs, and a wedding ring on his right hand. His hair is white, silky, and of moderate length. He has several tiny aquamarine earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He plays an instrument quite well.

History: He was born into a rich family. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. Some 4 years later his spouse died after the birth of his daughter. Heartbroken, Erdan never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his daughter whom he trained as his mother had trained him before.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: In love, Attractive, Rich, Guardian. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 1000 gp.

Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he wears a blue costume with the symbols of the sun god on his torso. He keeps his chestnut hair in a flapper bob. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: His necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. While he appears to be a normal Elf, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He's also a talented Spice Merchant, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: He wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Insane, Greedy. Bonds: Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 1000 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He dresses in black turtlenecks beneath a yellow coat with red slacks. He is portly but not overly obese. Sporting a red mohawk and bushy mustache this man's hair draws a lot of attention. His eyes are likewise blue. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: A deeply religious man he believes everything happens for a reason. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: A child with a great deal of writing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered writing. He has never given up on his writing dream.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Ideals: Joker, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Religious, Immigrant. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: Golden yellow topaz (900 gp). Chalcedony (20 gp). Chalcedony (20 gp). Smoky quartz (20 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (4 gp). Pink pearl (100 gp). Blue-white diamond (4000 gp). Eye agate (4 gp). Deep green spinel (100 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears many layers of old clothing at all times. He has silver hair. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are brown.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. 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 west. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and to reunite with his absent father

Ideals: Justice, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Poor, Family. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 1200 gp. Star rose quartz (30 gp).

Description: This man is wearing a long, green cloak. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized amethyst on his left hand. He has a very tight haircut. His fierce blue eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He has schizophrenia that causes him to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: He comes from a rich western family. He worked as a nervous Dilettante and found it very stressful. Being a Dilettante 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: To pay off his debts; and 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

Flaws: Disease, Hedonist. Bonds: Rich, Job, Criminal record, Debt. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 800 gp. Deep blue spinel (1300 gp). Star rose quartz (80 gp). Malachite (8 gp). Amethyst (130 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.