The son of a leather smuggler (leather is contraband!?), A human vampire who was making a nice living as a doctor and found out by accident, a soldier that killed everyone on the ship he was on tenure with while he was in the mists of a psychotic breakdown, a princess with an efreet, a mad scientist and a violinist who is recently the first non-human vampire (she didn't know she was a vampire at the time, would have been interesting to put on the resume)... With 'good guys' like this the "bad guys" are boring in comparison.
(Hmm, this piece really seems to resonate with a lot of folks... wonder if I should make this a Zazzle item?