Description: This man is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of his veins is visible when he is not flexing. His shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for him due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. He keeps his long red hair kept up in a rat tail. His eyes are green and catlike.

Personality: He seems absolutely devoid of it. He stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. Efferil enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Efferil was born with his father's beautiful face. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: He seems to be bored by most things.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Mundane, Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 300 sp. Freshwater pearl (14 gp).

Description: This eastern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His white crest is lengthy. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. Ghesh is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his brothers into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: Ghesh hails from a village terrorized by brigands. 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 Sculptor. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Family, Enemies. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 260 gp.

Description: He typically wears red cloth garments or leather armor. He is physically well-built. He wears his black 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 is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 500 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She has a missing right arm. She wears a green vest with golden trim over her white shirt. Her yellow leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and her green boots flare out at the collars. She has done her best to style her black crest to look like a famous performer. Her fierce red eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: This woman loves poetry and to teach people poetry more than just about anything. She feeds upon the attention of others.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the south; and obtaining odd cultural elven artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Artistic, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Slave. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: Just what you see.