Description: This younger middle-aged man likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather, and a wedding ring on his left hand. His brown hair and beard is wavy and long. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. He does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for him. He lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: He was born into a rich family. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered music. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east; and he is greedy

Ideals: Philantrophist, Artistic, Entrepeneur. Bonds: In love, Rich. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 1000 pp. Smoky quartz (70 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1500 gp). Star rose quartz (70 gp). Banded agate (15 gp). Emerald (1300 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (15 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (15 gp). Moss agate (15 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his falchion with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. He carries a battered sickle and tarnished falchion as well. His scarlet crest is braided into rings. His half smiles and red eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He enjoys reading and quiet.

History: He got into the Courier business at a young age. 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 Courier. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Courier for hire.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and to be a navigator again

Ideals: Fighting, Logical. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 600 gp. A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (80 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing brown cape and mantle trimmed with soft black waves gently in the breeze. He has dyed his greying chestnut hair a little too much giving a sharp chestnut color. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He likes to make people angry or surprised. He invented a lineage for himself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Beggar arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Ostracized due to the psionic powers of his oldest sister, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Dwarves became a terror of the countryside. In his journeys he found a malevolent artifact. He wishes to return this artifact and its corrupting influence back to where it came.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 3000 gp. Star ruby (500 gp). Violet garnet (400 gp). Brown-green garnet (130 gp). Jasper (70 gp).

Description: 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 silver crest is long and unkept. His gold eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Dragonborns.

History: Dazzazn hails from a village terrorized by brigands. As a young child he wandered into the woods despite his mother's warnings against it. Afterwards he claimed he had encountered brigands who tried to eat his hand. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Elven compassion; and a strong sense of loyalty to elven people

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: A plain young-adult man, he wears skinny pants and wears a green and black robe with the hood down. He sports a flattop crest cut. His eyes are likewise red.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Arjhan will drive conversation. Arjhan enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. When Arjhan reached his early adolescence his Dragonborn mother passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, he decided to travel. His rounds led him into the Army with a few individuals who would become his life-long companions. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Many dire rats want him driven away; and wants to raise his children well

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Military, Family, Enemies. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 600 gp. Aquamarine (600 gp). Jade (100 gp). Emerald (1500 gp). White opal (1500 gp). Red-brown spinel (100 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (13 gp).

Description: This tall, slender man is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing green cape and mantle trimmed with soft brown waves gently in the breeze. His white hair is still thick. His eyes are black and catlike.

Personality: Deceptive and manipulative this eastern guy figured out how to best use his charms to convince people to do what he wants. He does not mind isolation but does not hate company and attempts to receive them as best as possible.

History: His druidic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. While he appears to be a normal Tiefling, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He was granted druidic powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and he uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs

Ideals: Extrovert, Gifted. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Rich, Attractive. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 1000 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman is very fat, and is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. Her brown hair is singed and shortened. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady black eyes.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Jezebeth embodies much of what other species detest in the Tieflings. Jezebeth enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: She was born in the west, but her parents moved at a very young age to the north. Her family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The father sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. She saw this and took pride in her father's willingness to do anything to win. As of late she has set up a hidden staging nest where she ambushes people she hires for escort.

Motivation: She is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions; and she has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Hedonist. Bonds: Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 300 gp.