Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing brown cape and mantle trimmed with soft blue waves gently in the breeze. His golden hair is greasy and uncared for. His ears are large.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He refers to his adoptive father 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: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. Being born in the north, 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 north 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 east. 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 raise his children well; and to clean up the streets

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Guardian, Family. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 400 pp.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He wears a black armored body suit, with a simple white line shooting up and back down. His hair is cut close to his head. He has blue eyes.

Personality: He is fixated on the number 30. He counts his steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. He seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. Heian was born on a far western island where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Map Maker. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 5000 sp. Coral (40 gp). Blue quartz (6 gp). Hematite (6 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: 4'9" and muscular, this eastern man tends to wear a black poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. His white hair is smooth and relatively long. His ears are large.

Personality: This man loves painting and to teach people painting more than just about anything. He takes great pride in his work and is very well organized. His planner is full of calendar events.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Fortune-teller arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. A gifted student he started as a Armorer, but he got bored and became a Fortune-teller. 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: He has money and likes to spend it; and to be a armorer again

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 1000 gp. Jeweled anklet (2000 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (90 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1200 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (2000 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (100 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.