Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he tends to wear a tan poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. His golden hair is cut short. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with painting. He constantly tries to fill his life with painting. He claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day he will do what he thinks is right.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. He has had some formal painting training, and achieved minor success. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He is wracked by social anxiety; and he is terrified, and will act out of fear

Ideals: Artistic, Justice, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Banker

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 600 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is renowned for his bright brown suits and hats. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. His white hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. His hazel eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. 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. 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 find somewhere to settle down.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Justice. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 7000 sp. Carnelian (60 gp). Sard (60 gp).

Description: He wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. His black hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a cross scrunchie. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. His father was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage.

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Insomniac, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 800 gp. Deep blue spinel (800 gp). Sard (60 gp). Violet garnet (800 gp). Chalcedony (60 gp).

Description: He is a paragon of his species. He is larger and stronger than most Elves. His skin is dark but he possesses many brown ritualistic tattoos. He dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. His red hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His skin is flawless and his amber eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He moved out south to avoid the crime he committed. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 600 gp. Jasper (70 gp). Aquamarine (200 gp). Alexandrite (200 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This western man wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty violet coat over it. His clothes are grease stained in places. He has styled his brown hair well, parting it to the left. His gray eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes orcs are coming to abduct people. His brief stint in the army gave him the idea he was invincible and that he is the toughest man alive.

History: Eiravel was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his mother was employed at, doing general labor. His parents were killed by orcs in a raid when he was still a young child. The orcs captured him, and made him a slave and general play-thing. He was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to his deformed appearance. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by orcs, and he desires to right it.

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Enemies, Military. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 5000 gp. Rock crystal (50 gp). Amber (160 gp). Hematite (10 gp). Sardonyx (50 gp). Golden pearl (160 gp). Zircon (50 gp). Star ruby (1400 gp). 1 Medium magic item.