Description: This man is wearing a long, blue, dusty cloak. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. His white hair is still thick. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He has always had a great fascination with Half-Elven culture. He will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: Efferil was born with his father's beautiful face. A gifted student he started as a Masseuse, but he got bored and became a Dilettante. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 7 years.

Motivation: Regain custody of his son; and a strong sense of loyalty to half-elven people

Flaws: Racist, Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Family. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 12000 gp. Banded agate (14 gp). Sard (50 gp). Moss agate (14 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (14 gp). Silver pearl (150 gp). Jade (150 gp). Peridot (50 gp). White opal (1600 gp). Red spinel (150 gp). Peridot (50 gp). Jacinth (3000 gp).

Description: With violet face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he wears green trousers with yellow and violet striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. His crest is cut close to his head. His half smiles and gold eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He is happy with his job as a Slave Trader. He turns his eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. He is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: Baradad was raised in a hard working conservative environment. His father was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Joker, Persistence, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 9000 gp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (200 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (400 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (400 gp). A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (130 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (1100 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). Jeweled anklet (4000 gp). Gold music box (4000 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (3000 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (500 gp). Solid gold idol (200 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (3000 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (3000 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (4000 gp). Solid gold idol (200 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (3000 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (1100 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (400 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1200 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (400 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (3000 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). Solid gold idol (200 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (130 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1200 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (3000 gp). Carved bone or ivory statuette (70 gp). 1 Major magic item.

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy brown stubble. She wears a suit in poor condition. It has not been laundered in sometime and has been worn in activities one would not normally wear a suit during. She has a hunchback. Her hair is brown and curly. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines brown.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes orcs are coming to abduct people. She is a thrill seeker, she laughs at people and throws down challenges. She is highly competitive and combative.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature bastard sword.

Motivation: She has passion for adventuring and risk; and to reunite with her old friends

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Enemies, Mentor. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 8000 gp. Silver comb with moonstones (1000 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (70 gp). Solid gold idol (800 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (70 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (2500 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (700 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (70 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1100 gp). Jeweled anklet (1000 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (800 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. Her auburn hair is knotted and matted. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She is a sleazy, sleazy gal. She has no qualms about using her powers of suggestion to get people to do what she wants. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her singing with anyone who is interested.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. By chance she met her brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the east; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother

Ideals: Artistic, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Family. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 6000 gp. Sardonyx (60 gp). Chalcedony (60 gp). Black opal (1400 gp). Moonstone (60 gp). Freshwater pearl (5 gp). Sardonyx (60 gp). Red-brown spinel (50 gp). Eye agate (5 gp). Aquamarine (1600 gp). Jasper (60 gp). Azurite (5 gp). Black pearl (1600 gp). Blue quartz (5 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1600 gp). Sardonyx (60 gp). Zircon (60 gp). Rhodochrosite (5 gp). Blue sapphire (1400 gp).

Description: This petite short woman is perpetually holding a beer of some kind. She wears a tan deerstalker hat and tan clothes, marred by beers. She has slicked back red hair. Her gray eyes peer out from beneath her deerstalker tan hat.

Personality: Her voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl she speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of her tone. She loves teas. She is very sensitive about her face. To blow off anger she lifts weights and to control her otherwise explosive temper she works out a lot.

History: The child of a Miller, who enjoyed hunting, Mardnab was taken on many hunting expeditions. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the east; and doesn't want to be a farmer and was forced into it by her family

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Cynical. Bonds: Nature, Family. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 1000 gp. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She is lean but muscular and wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. Her blonde hair is wavy and long. Her ears are large.

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 regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for her. She lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: She was born into a rich family. Through the years after Nora was born, her mother became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the north. Nora's mother didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. She then took over the family business and is one of the better Mortician for hire.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent mother; and money/treasure

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Job, Family. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 400 pp. Lapis lazuli (12 gp). Freshwater pearl (12 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (12 gp). Onyx (50 gp). Freshwater pearl (12 gp). Aquamarine (1600 gp). Star rose quartz (50 gp). Obsidian (12 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: Standing 6'5", this man wears tattered old clothes. His red crest is long and unkept. He has a dull look in his red eyes.

Personality: He acts crazy and hedonistic. He is fiercely devoted to his father, and views his father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-brother.

History: He was born in the north, but his parents moved at a very young age to the east. He has had some formal painting training, and achieved minor success. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To unite with his brother; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 13000 gp. Black pearl (200 gp). Coral (90 gp). Alexandrite (200 gp). Silver pearl (90 gp). Violet garnet (200 gp). Black pearl (200 gp). Jasper (70 gp). Obsidian (16 gp). White pearl (90 gp). Sard (70 gp). Black pearl (200 gp). Red garnet (90 gp). Jade (90 gp). Jade (90 gp). Freshwater pearl (16 gp). Iolite (70 gp). Malachite (16 gp). Aquamarine (200 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.