Description: He is in excellent shape and dresses in grey turtlenecks beneath a violet coat with brown slacks. His auburn hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a wide-brimmed hat. His half smiles and blue eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic man, Mindartis's first love is himself. His second love is also himself. He is harsh and unforgiving.

History: He was born in the south, but his parents moved at a very young age to the east. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father 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 was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for him.

Ideals: Athletic, Impeccable. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 300 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). Carved bone or ivory statuette (30 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is very fat, and wears dark leathers with embroidery. His golden hair is heavily combed to the left. He is baby faced.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: When he was but 6 years old his parents immigrated from the south. His childhood dream was to be a Bricklayer, but he was a colossal failure. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and to be a bricklayer again

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 500 gp. Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (100 gp).

Description: This man stands a little under 5'1" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He very much looks the part of a Blacksmith. He sports a flattop hair cut. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: A grumpy guy he will invite people to lunch so he can critique them. Yet he still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: He got into the Blacksmith business at a young age. His parents divorced when he was young, and his mother gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his mother, who blamed him for driving them apart. He tends to his Blacksmith job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: Expand his business; and his religion dominates his actions

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Insane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Religious. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 1900 gp. Onyx (30 gp). Blue sapphire (800 gp). Pink pearl (100 gp). Silver pearl (100 gp). Amber (100 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, he wears a green tunic with brown highlights, and long blue pants that bunch up around his shoes. His white hair is smooth and relatively long. His hazel unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic man, Caeldrim's first love is himself. His second love is also himself. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the east. A freak accident while working with his Stableman father left him crippled. He left for the east, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for him.

Ideals: Impeccable, Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 6000 sp. Rock crystal (60 gp). Blue quartz (11 gp). Black star sapphire (500 gp).

Description: This southern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He wears a robe, a symbol of the four houses of cards around his neck, and a ceremonial dagger on his belt. His white hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, he has a hard time making friends. Paelias enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Fisher arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He inherited a moderately successful company from his father. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. Recently a tribe of dire rats attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Paelias fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he is greedy

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Hedonist. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 1000 gp. A necklace of small pink pearls (4000 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (120 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (120 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (100 gp). A delicate brass dragon egg (50 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (2400 gp). Gold music box (2000 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (2300 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.