Description: He dresses in white turtlenecks beneath a brown coat with white slacks. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. His hair is cut close to his head. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines gray.

Personality: Howard speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. He is clearly well-traveled and educated. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He became a Barrister soon after.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and to unite with his brother

Ideals: Impeccable, Opinionated. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Job, Family. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 90 pp.

Description: She is a husky woman, who tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with her rolled up shirt sleeves this gives her a very relaxed look. She has moderate length brown hair. She is baby faced.

Personality: She has two modes she varies between. On the job she is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job she is a party animal. She uses her nature as a weapon; she likes to lead opponents to think her in distress.

History: When she was but 8 years old her parents immigrated from the east. Her psionic abilities were realized during a raid on her village. She was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of specialists.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: Silver comb with moonstones (400 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (600 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (400 gp).

Description: This western man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His hair is always cut to a buzz. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: This man loves poetry and to teach people poetry more than just about anything. He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Bricklayer arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and he is greedy

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 1500 gp.

Description: He wears violet trousers with brown and tan striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. He carries with him a set of hammers, each one with a opal on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. His brown hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are gray.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He plays an instrument quite well.

History: He got into the Cook business at a young age. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 2 years.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Religious. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 6000 sp.

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath her coat. She keeps her cinnamon fur in a flapper bob. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She is extraordinarily eccentric. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She left for the west, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Wants her loneliness to end; and she's in love

Ideals: Gifted, Athletic. Flaws: Insomniac, Insane. Bonds: Immigrant, Has a crush. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: Violet garnet (1100 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1100 gp).