Description: This man is very fat, and wears just a black suit. His hair is auburn and very short. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady hazel eyes.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his father.

History: Rael lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He inherited a moderately successful company from his father. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Family, Rich. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 3000 gp. A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (10 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (3000 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1800 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (100 gp).

Description: This man wears a grey vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His black leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his grey boots flare out at the collars. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. His brown hair is braided into rings. His amber eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage son.

History: He was born into a rich family. 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 west. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Logical, Fighting. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Family, Rich. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 4000 gp. Deep blue spinel (1200 gp). Amethyst (150 gp). Rock crystal (20 gp). Bloodstone (20 gp). Azurite (16 gp). Hematite (16 gp). Jasper (20 gp). Violet garnet (1200 gp).

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He is dressed in a clean black cloak covering his clean studded leather. His golden hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. He is baby faced.

Personality: He has schizophrenia that causes him to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: He comes from a rich northern family. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. He struck the Guard job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: To clean up the streets; and to protect his home

Flaws: Disease, Selfish. Bonds: Rich, Job, Guardian. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 2000 gp. Finely wrought small gold bracelet (80 gp). Old masterpiece painting (2200 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (70 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (500 gp). Carved bone or ivory statuette (80 gp). Jeweled gold crown (6000 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (2000 gp).