Description: He is typically in his Painter uniform. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. His auburn hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. His skin is flawless and his brown eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. He is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: He got into the Painter business at a young age. 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 Painter. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Painter for the past few years.

Motivation: To be a Spice Merchant again.

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Bonds: Job, Attractive. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 3000 gp. An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (110 gp). Finely wrought small gold bracelet (50 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (500 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (110 gp).

Description: He is lean but muscular and wears a grey vest and prefers black and brown shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. His white hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. His violet eyes peer out from beneath his Stetson grey hat.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: His arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His parents divorced when he was young, and his mother gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his mother, who blamed him for driving them apart. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Tanner.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Ideals: Professionalism, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 2000 gp. Rhodochrosite (15 gp). Red spinel (110 gp). Azurite (15 gp). Fire opal (1200 gp). Obsidian (15 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (15 gp). Alexandrite (1000 gp). Rhodochrosite (15 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1000 gp). Red-brown spinel (110 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This tall, slender man very much looks the part of a Beggar. With bright chestnut hair and a scraggly beard. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. He sought a place where he would be rewarded solely on the merits of his skills. This search led him directly into Beggar work with an outfit from a few towns over. Beggar work suited him well, and with each successful project, he earned more gold and more respect from his peers. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Beggar for the past few years.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Flaws: Insomniac, Insane, Selfish. Bonds: Job, Military. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 21000 sp. An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (30 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1300 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (400 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (900 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1900 gp).