Description: This man wears long strands of ruby and short brown dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths, and sports empty pouches on his belt. He has styled his black hair well, parting it to the right. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: While he is on the job, he is grim and serious. He understands how dangerous the world is and the need to stay safe. He has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. His family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The mother sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. He saw this and took pride in his mother's willingness to do anything to win. 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: A rival would like him out of the picture.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man wears a yellow vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His white leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his yellow boots flare out at the collars. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. His silver hair is smooth and relatively long. He has several tiny topaz earrings on each ear.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. Erdan was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Erdan decided he wanted neither the life of his father nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. Being a Barrister 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 feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help; and a rival would like him out of the picture

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Forgetful. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 1800 gp.

Description: He dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. He has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy auburn hair. He has gleaming, smiling green eyes.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: When he was but 7 years old his parents immigrated from the east. He always admired martial-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He left for the east, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister; and he feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help

Ideals: Justice, Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A middle-aged man, he wears a blue costume with the symbols of magic on his torso, and is pretty ugly. His auburn hair is lengthy. His fierce brown eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He is irritable and easily angered. He is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use his stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing poetry.

History: The child of a Architect, who enjoyed hunting, Naeris was taken on many hunting expeditions. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He has never given up on his poetry dream.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Nature, Slave. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 27000 sp. Iolite (40 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (13 gp). Rich purple corundum (800 gp). Iolite (40 gp). Fire opal (800 gp). Lapis lazuli (13 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This exceptionally lanky man tends to wear a large white jacket. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy blonde hair. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He is shy and timid. He has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. He constantly seizes attention wherever he goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. He likes to think of himself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He left for the south, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and he feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Shy, Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Slave, Immigrant. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 800 gp.