Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He tends to wear a grey poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. His hair is always cut to a buzz. He has gray eyes and a grey hat with a black feather.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his mother.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 13 years.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Poor, Nature. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 4000 gp. A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (90 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp).

Description: He is a pot bellied eastern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. His white hair, when down, is lengthy. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. Quarion was born on a far eastern plains where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert 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 is greedy; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 400 pp. Alexandrite (1600 gp). Aquamarine (1600 gp). Obsidian (14 gp).

Description: This man wears tattered old clothes. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. His white hair is cut short. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating he would invite many more into his home than his spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: Theriatis hails from a village terrorized by brigands. His parents were killed by brigands in a raid when he was still a young child. The brigands captured him, and made him a slave and general play-thing. He was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to his deformed appearance. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by brigands, and he desires to right it.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Shy. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 12000 sp. Solid gold idol (400 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (150 gp). Solid gold idol (400 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (2400 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1100 gp). Solid gold idol (400 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.