Description: He has the majority of his body covered in plate. He is portly but not overly obese. His brown hair is lengthy. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Heian was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He struck the Bowyer job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Mentor, Job. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 300 pp. Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (300 gp).

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he wears dull brown sweaters, loose yellow pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath his sweater he keeps a concealed quarterstaff, just in case. He has shaved his head bald. He is baby faced.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. He spends most of his days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There he gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: Ahvain was born the youngest of three triplets. Ahvain abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. He would ruin relationships and cause injury. He was reprimanded several times before being given his current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Joker. Bonds: Adventurer, Family, Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 800 pp. A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (40 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1200 gp). Solid gold idol (300 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (700 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (800 gp). Solid gold idol (300 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (900 gp). A delicate silver chain set with a tourmaline (40 gp). Jeweled gold crown (3000 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He has a missing left leg. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His golden hair is braided into rings. His brown eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks his mind. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Addict, Shy, Forgetful. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 800 gp. A delicate silver chain set with a tourmaline (80 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (180 gp). A pair of blacksmith’s puzzle; each has a pair of interlocked iron designs that users try to take apart and put back together (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: With blue face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he wears a pastel vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His red leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his pastel boots flare out at the collars. He has dyed his greying black hair a little too much giving a sharp black color. His eyes are blue and beady.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist he will grow angry at them.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Painter arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Like his father and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Painter. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

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

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 900 pp. Deep blue spinel (1100 gp). Fire opal (400 gp). Jasper (70 gp). Citrine (70 gp). Blue star sapphire (400 gp). Chalcedony (70 gp). Deep blue spinel (1100 gp). Peridot (70 gp). Blue quartz (5 gp). Deep blue spinel (1100 gp). Brown-green garnet (150 gp). Blue quartz (5 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A middle-aged man, he wears suspenders and blue workpants. His shirt is black, and he wears a heavy blue leather apron most of the time, and is pretty ugly. His hair is always cut to a buzz. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. His father disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his father, he was betrayed dozens of times. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Regain custody of his daughter; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Lazy. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: Just what you see.