Description: This late middle aged man does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it and is in decent physical shape. He has a long chestnut beard with little hanging trinkets. His blue eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: His necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. In his 19th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions; and he is terrified, and will act out of fear

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Secretive, Fearful. Bonds: Guardian, Religious. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 300 pp. Chalcedony (60 gp). Smoky quartz (60 gp). Onyx (60 gp). Blue sapphire (1300 gp). Malachite (14 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He is a physically imposing light-skinned man. He wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. His silver hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. He is baby faced.

Personality: He has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Engraver who has hired him part-time. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and further expansion of business

Flaws: Forgetful, Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Poor, Has a crush, Job. Occupation: Engraver

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

Possessions: 5000 gp. A small bag of saffron. (90 gp). Gold and ruby ring (7000 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). Gold music box (1000 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (3000 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (90 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (3000 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (90 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A thin man, he clearly needs to put on some weight, but he still has a lot of muscle. He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. He wears his chestnut hair down. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. He will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: Marry his brother to traveling adventurers.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive, Mundane. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: White pearl (60 gp). Jet (60 gp). Zircon (50 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (1600 gp). Brown-green garnet (60 gp). Alexandrite (700 gp). Alexandrite (700 gp). Chrysoprase (50 gp). Red-brown spinel (60 gp). Red-brown spinel (60 gp). Freshwater pearl (11 gp). Banded agate (11 gp). 1 Medium magic item.