Description: This tall, slender man wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His crest is bronze and curly. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk he knows how to make people feel guilty. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: His arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. At a young age both his parents were killed in an accident. His uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took him in and had him trained in basic self defense. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: He is greedy; and retire the richest man in the west

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: Zircon (40 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This eastern man is abnormally tall. He wears white painted combat armor at almost all times. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. He wears his auburn hair down. His green eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He is curt in most of his responses. He prefers to keep his word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. His temper goes off on the smallest of things. He tends to lash out at those around him.

History: A powerful necromancer made him what he is. 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 moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact.

Flaws: Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Mentor. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 2600 gp. Freshwater pearl (7 gp). Moonstone (30 gp). Aquamarine (1100 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt. His black hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. His eyes are a pleasant hazel.

Personality: Theriatis wants to be seen as a stoic, levelheaded, noble Adept, so he tries to act the part. He does a good job, for the most part... He also has developed a complete distrust of the Fortune-teller profession.

History: Theriatis hails from a village terrorized by dire rats. Like his mother and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Farmer. He has gone from town to town working and never settling down anywhere, but has fallen for a local Fortune-teller. He hasn't told them the truth, but wants to settle down with them.

Motivation: Many dire rats want him driven away; and obtaining odd cultural half-orc artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Disciplined. Bonds: Job, Enemies, Has a crush, Adventurer. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 500 gp. Golden yellow topaz (1500 gp). Moss agate (6 gp). Chrysoprase (20 gp). Black pearl (1500 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Her skin has the orange glow of too much sun. She wears baggy grey pantaloons and a yellow scarf. Her tied-back hair is chestnut. She has gleaming, smiling brown eyes.

Personality: She swings through moods quickly. One moment she is cool and collected, the next she is carried away by passions. She is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: The child of northern immigrants she idolized her mother. She helped her mother out around the business and became quite the natural. She has achieved small success as a Marshal.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Passionate, Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 1500 sp.