Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. He sports a flattop hair cut. He has several tiny ruby earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes brigands are coming to abduct people. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a daughter. 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: Several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge.

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Rich, Enemies, In love. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 3000 gp. Deep blue spinel (300 gp). Coral (80 gp). Bloodstone (20 gp). Iolite (20 gp). Deep blue spinel (300 gp). Azurite (4 gp). Star ruby (400 gp). Iolite (20 gp). Onyx (20 gp).

Description: His right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He wears tattered old clothes. With bright red hair and a scraggly beard. His eyes are brown.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation he is generally quite perceptive. He notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. He is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. His first spouse was a Painter, they had one son, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and wants to raise his children well

Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac, Lazy. Bonds: Military, Family. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 2000 gp. Embroidered and bejeweled glove (4000 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1100 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. He carries with him a set of quarterstaffs, each one with a aquamarine on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. His golden hair is heavily combed to the right. He has a dull look in his brown eyes.

Personality: He believes mankind has become decadent and spoiled by the march of civilization and an end should come to life as we know it. He takes great joy in being the best Sage in town.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He's also a talented Painter, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Sage responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Job, Mentor, Immigrant. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 300 pp. Smoky quartz (40 gp). Alexandrite (600 gp). 1 Minor magic item.