Description: This late middle aged man wears a tight fitting pastel shirt and pants and is in decent physical shape. His fur is white, silky, and of moderate length. His amber eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. 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: The child of western immigrants he idolized his father. Like his father and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Mortician. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and wants to open a new tavern

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 3000 gp. Moonstone (20 gp). Bloodstone (20 gp). Black pearl (1400 gp). White pearl (40 gp). Jade (40 gp). Aquamarine (1400 gp). Freshwater pearl (9 gp). Black pearl (1400 gp). Silver pearl (40 gp). Tourmaline (40 gp). Obsidian (9 gp). Smoky quartz (20 gp). Black star sapphire (1300 gp). Star ruby (1300 gp). Chalcedony (20 gp). Deep blue spinel (1400 gp). Deep blue spinel (1400 gp). Golden pearl (40 gp). Azurite (9 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what he was had he not made sure his armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit he is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright green and blue, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. His hair, while still mostly dark red, has prominent grey streaks. His half smiles and white eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He exudes charisma. He is a tour de force of persuasion. He is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. He inherited a moderately successful company from his mother. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: He uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Rich, Attractive. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 18000 gp. Rhodochrosite (15 gp). Lapis lazuli (15 gp). Eye agate (15 gp). Blue quartz (15 gp). Lapis lazuli (15 gp). Iolite (50 gp). Violet garnet (1200 gp). Banded agate (15 gp). Violet garnet (1200 gp). White opal (1100 gp). Jasper (50 gp). Deep green spinel (40 gp). Rhodochrosite (15 gp). Sard (50 gp). Chrysoberyl (40 gp). Golden pearl (40 gp). Lapis lazuli (15 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: The dark-skinned woman stands 5'4" and wears a tan coat over a brown low-cut shirt, and a deerstalker hat upon her head. She has dyed her greying chestnut hair a little too much giving a sharp chestnut color. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are amber.

Personality: She resents people who mock her appearance or her, so she has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. She is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: The child of southern immigrants she idolized her mother. Ahinar was born on a far southern plains where she grew up under the tutelage of her mother, an expert Seamstress. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and expand her business

Flaws: Ugly, Selfish. Bonds: Immigrant, Family, Job. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 400 pp. A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (100 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). Gold and ruby ring (9000 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman is very fat, and very much looks the part of a Butcher. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. She has several tiny jet earrings on each ear.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, she has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. She is a thrill seeker, she laughs at people and throws down challenges. She is highly competitive and combative.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Nurkara grew up listening to her mother's many stories. She was an apprentice working in her mother's forge. She tends to her Butcher job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and expand her business

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 6000 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). Gold music box (4000 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1500 gp).

Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she is typically in her Crown-heir uniform. She wears her blue crest up. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: This woman loves dancing and to teach people dancing more than just about anything. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage daughter.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Being born in the west, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the west for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way south. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Crown-heir responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 8000 gp. Rose (20 gp). Sard (20 gp).

Description: He is a paragon of his species. He is larger and stronger than most Gnomes. His skin is dark but he possesses many brown ritualistic tattoos. He wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates his frame. He has silver hair. His violet eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: Qualen is a sociable creature first and foremost. He loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. He can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. He enjoys reading and quiet.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. His father was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. He has worked as a Sellsword like his father before him.

Motivation: To end his boredom; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Extrovert, Logical, Persistence. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Poor. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 7000 gp. Golden yellow topaz (800 gp). Eye agate (13 gp). Hematite (13 gp). Tourmaline (130 gp). Zircon (80 gp). Obsidian (13 gp). Zircon (80 gp). Violet garnet (800 gp). Banded agate (13 gp). Red spinel (130 gp). Blue quartz (13 gp).

Description: This fat northern man has a bulbous nose and wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. His skin is also unnaturally pale. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His eyes are amber and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. He disdains his fellow northerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: The child of northern immigrants he idolized his father. In his youth he was a Painter, and wanted to be a champion fighter when he grew up. He was working during a period of war, and as one of the natives he lived in fear of joining the others in being slaughtered. He saw the brutality and swore off his fighting aspirations, taking his younger sister on his back after seeing his parents die, and fled the country. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and he feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, PTSD. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 3000 gp. A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (100 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). Jeweled anklet (3000 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (100 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (1000 gp). A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (100 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1300 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (600 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (600 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.