Description: This western man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. His black hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He speaks before he thinks and is too direct. He is stubborn though. He always likes to keep a trick up his sleeve. He likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if he feels he even has a chance of losing.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious western family, he was no stranger to responsibility. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs; and he possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Impulsive. Bonds: Criminal record, Religious. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 7000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A pudgy man standing about 4'11" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. He has dyed his greying silver hair a little too much giving a sharp silver color. His brown eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He speaks before he thinks and is too direct. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his mother.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. He inherited a moderately successful company from his mother. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Apothecary for the past few years.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 200 pp. Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1700 gp). Old masterpiece painting (2400 gp). Solid gold idol (1200 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (1000 gp). Solid gold idol (1200 gp). A miniature (3 inch) silver gauntlet, trimmed in mother-of-pearl (90 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a chocolate of some kind. He wears baggy black pantaloons and a white scarf, marred by chocolates. His red hair is braided into rings. He has gleaming, smiling blue eyes.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. He refers to his adoptive mother for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Aelar grew up listening to his mother's many stories. He was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found.

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Adventurer, Immigrant. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 1000 gp. Jet (100 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a tan coat over a yellow low-cut shirt, and a small hat upon his head. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. His auburn hair is knotted and matted. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: Calm and collected, he is a well trained Mason. He is a great chef.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. Being born in the east, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the east for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way south. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his sons to still be retired.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Insomniac, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 600 pp. A roughly beaten golden orb (70 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (700 gp). A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (70 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1800 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (4000 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (2600 gp). A delicate brass dragon egg (20 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (300 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (700 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1800 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He is a mite stocky and is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. He sports a long silver beard, and similarly colored long hair. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing singing.

History: Varis was born with his mother's beautiful face. 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 Dilettante. He has taken up work as a Dilettante and fed both sides of the war false information with the goal of increasing casualties.

Motivation: Expand his business; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Flaws: PTSD. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 400 gp. Golden yellow topaz (1200 gp). Deep blue spinel (1200 gp).