Description: An imposing woman with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic left hand, she wears well tailored gowns and hats with beautiful decoration. She is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. Her deerstalker hat is riddled with cuts and holes. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. She always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove her into the Sage business.

History: Vapula was born in the south. At a young age she loved to build and create. She inherited a moderately successful company from her mother. Under her leadership it has flourished, and using capital from her venture she effectively owns an entire region. One night she noticed a nearby shooting star which she hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. She has done her darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Gifted, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 10 pp. 7 Acid flasks.

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized tan coat. His white hair is heavily combed to the right. His amber eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. He has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: Trained by his father for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. His parents enrolled him in a Expert school at a young age so that he could practice his arcane talents. He was granted arcane powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 34000 sp. Rock crystal (50 gp). Black pearl (300 gp). Golden yellow topaz (300 gp).

Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic left hand, he dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. His hair is cut close to his head. His eyes are a pleasant blue.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: He comes from a rich western family. His first spouse was a Guard, they had one son, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A middle-aged man, he tends to wear a brown poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt, and is pretty ugly. His white hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. He has amber eyes and a brown hat with a green feather.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, he has a hard time making friends. He can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered poetry. He has never given up on his poetry dream.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Gifted, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 300 sp.

Description: He is a mite stocky and wears suspenders and yellow workpants. His shirt is brown, and he wears a heavy yellow leather apron most of the time. He wears a small hat to cover his moderate length auburn hair. His skin is flawless and his brown eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. His parents enrolled him in a Commoner school at a young age so that he could practice his divine talents. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by illithids. Roger was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and revenge

Ideals: Professionalism, Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Baker

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

Possessions: Banded agate (15 gp). Alexandrite (1500 gp). Hematite (15 gp).