Description: He is a paragon of his species. He is larger and stronger than most Elves. His skin is dark but he possesses many brown ritualistic tattoos. He has a large blue mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into his brown robe. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His gray eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. He has a cruel streak; something he gained from his previous mentor. He harbors resentment against his former mentor.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. 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 Carter. He struck the Carter job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and balancing his hectic life and new carter responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Mentor, Slave, Job. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 2000 gp. Alexandrite (1300 gp). Moss agate (16 gp). White opal (400 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. Her black hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. Her brown eyes peer out from beneath her top violet hat.

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 does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Painter arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Her mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her mother was legitimate. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and she is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Religious. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 5000 gp. Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (2200 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (180 gp). Gold music box (1000 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He wears just a tan suit. He has done his best to style his blonde hair to look like a famous performer. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He considers himself a man of culture and sophistication. He likes a good challenge to his wits. He works hard and plays hard.

History: He was born into a rich family. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He is greedy; and he doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes

Ideals: Athletic, Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 47000 sp.

Description: This late middle aged woman wears a robe, a symbol of magic around her neck, and a falchion on her belt and is in decent physical shape. Her silver hair is still thick. Her red eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: Manea wants to be seen as a stoic, levelheaded, noble Ranger, so she tries to act the part. She does a good job, for the most part... She is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her mother. She was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. She found several beat up suits of armor and, cannibalizing spare parts, she put together a working one.

Motivation: She's looking for her big break.

Ideals: Fighting, Disciplined, Persistence. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 600 gp. Rose (50 gp). Rhodochrosite (11 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: An older man who wears dull tan sweaters, loose pastel pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath his sweater he keeps a concealed lance, just in case, he is not a threatening figure. He has wavy red hair. His eyes are amber and catlike.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: Caeldrim lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He worked as a nervous Glassblower and found it very stressful. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Crown-heir they were divorced and he won custody of their daughter. He worked as a Glassblower, and he later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: Many dire rats want him driven away; and several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge

Flaws: Sensitive. Bonds: Rich, Family, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 2100 sp.

Description: She appears as an extremely gaunt Half-Elf, and stands approximately 5'4". She wears violet robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally she wears more armor. She prefers to carry a flail, but if one is not available she will default to her spear, and her gloved hand is found clutching a spear. Her red hair has been sun bleached extensively. Her eyes are likewise brown.

Personality: She hates illithids. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. Flattery will make her almost putty in your hands.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. She worked as a nervous Sellsword and found it very stressful. She has worked as a Sellsword like her father before her.

Motivation: A deep hatred of illithids; and many illithids want her driven away

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Enemies, Job. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 2000 gp. Azurite (4 gp). Malachite (4 gp). Banded agate (4 gp). Hematite (4 gp). Eye agate (4 gp). Malachite (4 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (4 gp). Rose (70 gp). Coral (130 gp). Chalcedony (70 gp). Sardonyx (70 gp). Bloodstone (70 gp). Citrine (70 gp). Eye agate (4 gp). Emerald (600 gp). Pink diamond (6000 gp). Emerald (600 gp). Eye agate (4 gp). Smoky quartz (70 gp).

Description: This petite short woman is perpetually holding a tea of some kind. She typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep tan leather and dull grey iron scale mail, marred by teas. Her auburn hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a feathered hat. Her hazel eyes peer out from beneath her feathered tan hat.

Personality: She does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Veloptima is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Justice, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 15000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.