Description: This exceptionally lanky man does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. His broad hat is riddled with cuts and holes. His blue eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. He also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Animal Trainer arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. 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: To prove his worth to the world; and he is greedy

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Rich, Religious. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 100 pp. Silver comb with moonstones (400 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1000 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). A delicate brass dragon egg (30 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (150 gp). Carved bone or ivory statuette (30 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (400 gp). A delicate brass dragon egg (30 gp).

Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. He wears a colorful flower in his golden hair. His hazel eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. He passes on several rewards to people in need. He makes a point to leave places better than he found them.

History: A powerful necromancer made him what he is. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. 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: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Athletic, Philantrophist. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Mentor. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 80 pp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (800 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (300 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1800 gp).

Description: He is lean but muscular and wears a blue armored body suit, with a simple brown line shooting up and back down. His hair, while still mostly black, has prominent grey streaks. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the south. He also hits on women, regardless of circumstances.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family In his youth he was part of a gang. He got caught, but did not rat out his comrades and served his time in prison. He would ruin relationships and cause injury. He was reprimanded several times before being given his current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: Seeks redemption; and a rival would like him out of the picture

Ideals: Pacifist. Bonds: Attractive, Has a crush, Criminal record. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 3000 gp. Citrine (30 gp). Lapis lazuli (11 gp). Banded agate (11 gp). Alexandrite (700 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (11 gp). Rhodochrosite (11 gp). Star rose quartz (30 gp). Deep blue spinel (700 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (11 gp). Black pearl (700 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is dressed in a clean tan cloak covering his clean studded leather. His head has been shaved. This amber eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Varis was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Bather. He became a Bather soon after.

Motivation: To be a Guard again; and expand his business

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Mentor, Job. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 1500 gp. Old masterpiece painting (900 gp).

Description: He is typically in his Hunter uniform. He carries with him a set of hammers, each one with a sapphire on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. His silver hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. His fierce blue eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. He is underhanded and not above using his wealth and body to get others to do his bidding.

History: Theren was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Over the years he perfected his riding and shooting skills. Recently a tribe of orcs attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Theren fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Job, Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 7000 sp. Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (800 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (800 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1800 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.