Description: This eastern man wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. His clothes are grease stained in places. His moppish black hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His eyes are gray and catlike.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with poetry. He constantly tries to fill his life with poetry. He uses divination through singing.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. After coming to the age of reason, Aldous took it upon himself to study the martial arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He has never given up on his poetry dream.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east; and he's attracted to the pc

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 90 pp. Solid gold idol (200 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (150 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (150 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This younger middle-aged man wears a robe, a symbol of the sun god around his neck, and a quarterstaff on his belt, and a wedding ring on his left hand. His black hair is heavily combed to the left. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He snorts whenever he laughs or is feeling confident. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his mother.

History: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. Cursed with a spirit at a very young age, Delg has worked very hard to control his curse. Recently a tribe of brigands attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Delg fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: In love. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (400 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (140 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (400 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears a tan tunic with red highlights, and long white pants that bunch up around her shoes. She has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. Her silver hair is smooth and relatively long. Her blue eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage daughter.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Her mother worked until she suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. She had to support her now crippled mother and took her mother's old job. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and many gnolls want her driven away

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Secretive, Insane. Bonds: Family, Enemies. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 500 gp. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Chain shirt.

Description: This late middle aged woman is wearing a long, green cloak and is in decent physical shape. Her black crest is braided into rings. 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 curt in most of her responses. She prefers to keep her word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. She does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of goblins may trigger it at times.

History: She was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Findex grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Findex. She was granted druidic powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister; and an old rival family wants her found

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Insomniac, Shy. Bonds: Enemies, Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 240 pp. 1 Minor magic item.