Description: He stands about 4'11" and wears skinny pants and wears a black and brown robe with the hood down. His right leg appears badly burned and disfigured. He has moderate length black hair. His blue eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He is a great chef.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. He was an apprentice working in his father's forge. He became a Engraver soon after.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Job, Military. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 3000 gp. Black pearl (400 gp). Aquamarine (400 gp). Alexandrite (400 gp). Chalcedony (30 gp).

Description: He appears as an extremely gaunt Elf, and stands approximately 5'2". He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment, and his gloved hand is found clutching a mace. His tied-back hair is brown. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. He can't help but pocket interesting objects he comes across

History: Born to a Marshal, his mother struggled to pay the bills. 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 now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and he possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Poor. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 40 pp. Hematite (9 gp). Iolite (30 gp). White pearl (150 gp). Silver pearl (150 gp). Red garnet (150 gp). Amber (150 gp).

Description: He dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 5'1" when asserting himself. His black hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He likes to brag about his accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. He is ready at a moment's notice to give into his darker urges. He is a real pyromaniac and does not care who the fire hurts. He often ends up burning people alive in the fires he starts.

History: When he was but 8 years old his parents immigrated from the west. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Aust 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 Aust. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: He possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal.

Ideals: Passionate. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Immigrant. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 110 pp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing white cape and mantle trimmed with soft pastel waves gently in the breeze, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 4'9" when asserting himself. He has dyed his greying silver hair a little too much giving a sharp silver color. His gray eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. A fanatic, his devotion to his small selection of gods is unquestionable. He claims to be doing their will and will base all his actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: He is a Doppelganger in disguise. He was an apprentice working in his father's forge. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Rich, Religious, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 2000 sp.

Description: This man wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with white lining and desert motifs. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized amber on his right hand. His long auburn hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He hates goblins. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. 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: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. His father worked until he suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. He had to support his now crippled father and took his father's old job. 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: To unite with his brother; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Rich, Enemies, Family. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 5000 gp. Golden yellow topaz (200 gp). Azurite (9 gp). Emerald (1500 gp). Violet garnet (200 gp). Violet garnet (200 gp). Banded agate (9 gp). Red-brown spinel (60 gp). Aquamarine (200 gp). Hematite (9 gp). Black star sapphire (1500 gp). Black pearl (200 gp). Jasper (20 gp). Star ruby (1500 gp). Onyx (20 gp). Moss agate (9 gp). Violet garnet (200 gp). Jade (60 gp). Malachite (9 gp). Jasper (20 gp).