Description: This man wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized sapphire on his left hand. He wears his white hair up. He has gleaming, smiling white eyes.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage son.

History: He comes from a rich northern family. He was an adventurer many years ago and he formed a blood bond with his Half-Elven companion (his 'brother'). After a long history of fighting, Cressel and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He is greedy; and to reunite with his old friends

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She wears a green armored body suit, with a simple blue line shooting up and back down. Her copper crest is smooth and relatively long. Her eyes are gold and catlike.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. She is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Before the accident, she was one of the most outspoken anti-Gnomish activists. She was mortally wounded, saved by a kind and fast-acting Gnomish doctor. Being a Mason kept her interest for a while, but then she became depressed and bored. So she turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the north; and she will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact

Ideals: Persistence, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 600 gp. Golden circlet with four aquamarines (3000 gp). An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (90 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (200 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is typically in his Gardener uniform. His orange fur is knotted and matted. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He goes out his way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one he won't accept into his heart. Further he is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. A freak accident while working with his Crown-heir mother left him crippled. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Addict, Disease. Bonds: Job, Nature. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 10000 cp. Moss agate (16 gp).

Description: He wears a fine chain shirt which he covers with black colored cloaks and clothing, and he perpetually has his greataxe ready. He wears a wide-brimmed hat to cover his moderate length red crest. His gold unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is a very philanthropic person; he spends his free time working at various soup kitchens. He loves teas. He is very sensitive about his face. To blow off anger he lifts weights and to control his otherwise explosive temper he works out a lot.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. A serious injury left his father unemployed and in need of constant care. His family became saddled with debt trying to care for his infirm father. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Rich, Debt. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: Violet garnet (1600 gp). Tourmaline (140 gp). Bloodstone (60 gp). Azurite (10 gp). Alexandrite (1600 gp). Jasper (60 gp). Blue sapphire (1500 gp). Violet garnet (1600 gp). 1 Minor magic item.