Description: He is well dressed, constantly wearing a black suit, pastel shirt, and tan tie, and he perpetually has his hammer ready. He has golden hair. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: The child of eastern immigrants he idolized his mother. 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 Knight. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Knight.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Depressed, Forgetful. Bonds: Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 2000 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1700 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1700 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1500 gp). Gold music box (2000 gp).

Description: He wears light armors faded through time and improper care. He has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. With bright silver hair and a scraggly beard. His eyes are blue and catlike.

Personality: Rolen hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his writing career. He is fiercely devoted to his father, and views his father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-brother.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. 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 has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother; and to reunite with his absent father

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Family, Job. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 300 pp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (400 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1500 gp). Solid gold idol (400 gp). A delicate silver chain set with a tourmaline (90 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (50 gp).

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears long strands of amber and short red dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. His brown hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. He has violet eyes and a red hat with a white feather.

Personality: He has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Spy who has hired him part-time. He is a great chef.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He struck the Spy job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: He's attracted to the PC; and to be a guard again

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Rich, Has a crush, Religious, Job. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 1000 gp. Azurite (8 gp). Red-brown spinel (50 gp). Aquamarine (300 gp).