Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He usually wears his white robe and has his bow always slung over his shoulder. He has no hair. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. 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 is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Rich. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 9000 gp. Pink pearl (150 gp). Moonstone (80 gp). Rose (80 gp). Blue-white diamond (3000 gp). Citrine (80 gp). Blue quartz (8 gp). Sardonyx (80 gp). Alexandrite (900 gp). Malachite (8 gp). Red garnet (150 gp). Zircon (80 gp). Alexandrite (900 gp). Violet garnet (900 gp). Silver pearl (150 gp). Azurite (8 gp). Jet (150 gp). White pearl (150 gp). Zircon (80 gp). Blue star sapphire (900 gp). Smoky quartz (80 gp). Iolite (80 gp). Golden yellow topaz (900 gp). Violet garnet (900 gp). Pink pearl (150 gp). Deep green spinel (150 gp). Banded agate (8 gp). Malachite (8 gp). Golden yellow topaz (900 gp). Black star sapphire (900 gp).

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy red stubble. She does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. She has a hunchback. She keeps her red hair in a flapper bob. Her eyes are likewise red. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: Calm and collected, she is a well trained Sage. Hecat is a bit of a follower. Usually she is manipulated by her brothers into helping them out, but recently she has become more of a free agent.

History: Hecat hails from a village terrorized by brigands. Her father worked until she suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. She had to support her now crippled father and took her father's old job. She struck the Sage job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother; and her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Family, Enemies. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 500 pp. Obsidian (12 gp). Deep blue spinel (800 gp). White opal (1400 gp). Iolite (80 gp). Golden yellow topaz (800 gp). Chrysoprase (80 gp). Freshwater pearl (12 gp). Freshwater pearl (12 gp).

Description: He wears skinny pants and wears a blue and white robe with the hood down, and carries rapiers. His white hair is lengthy. He has several tiny jet earrings on each ear.

Personality: He acts crazy and hedonistic. He refers to his adoptive mother for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: To unite with his brother; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Rich, Family, Mentor. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 6000 gp. Eye agate (12 gp). Sard (70 gp). Alexandrite (200 gp). Golden yellow topaz (200 gp). Zircon (70 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She is dressed in a clean brown cloak covering her clean studded leather. Her golden hair has been sun bleached extensively. This gray eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, she has a hard time making friends. She is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with her old comrades. She has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. Like her father and her brother before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Fletcher. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: She desires power and/or immortality; and she doesn't get along with people that don't share her tastes

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Poor, Job. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 1000 pp. Silver comb with moonstones (400 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (100 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (100 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He wears a brown armored body suit, with a simple white line shooting up and back down. He wears a colorful flower in his red hair. His gray unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the west. A friendly and beautiful Dwarf, he is rarely seen without a few beauties around his arms. Though a playboy in all rights, he is no lame duck.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. A freak accident while working with his Unemployed mother left him crippled. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Athletic, Pacifist. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 1100 pp. Jet (70 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (1300 gp). Black pearl (600 gp). Jet (70 gp). Black opal (1300 gp). Star rose quartz (40 gp). Deep green spinel (70 gp). Zircon (40 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (13 gp). Golden yellow topaz (600 gp). Aquamarine (600 gp). Azurite (13 gp). Moss agate (13 gp). Deep green spinel (70 gp). Golden yellow topaz (600 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she is dressed in a clean black cloak covering her clean studded leather. Her hair is white and very short. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. She has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a woman enough she will sell her own mother. Money is her most trusted friend.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. She sought a place where she would be rewarded solely on the merits of her skills. This search led her directly into Layabout work with an outfit from a few towns over. Layabout work suited her well, and with each successful project, she earned more gold and more respect from her peers. During her travels, Lerissa and her party rested in a cavern that was (unknown to them) infused with powerful dark magic. Upon awakening, Lerissa discovered the rest of her party dead, transformed into horrible, mindless undead versions of their former selves. Lerissa fled the cavern, stopping for breath at a small pool, and only then realizing her own horrible transformation.

Motivation: Many dire rats want her driven away; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Job, Rich, Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 6000 gp. Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1900 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (5000 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (130 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (600 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (130 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (2000 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (130 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (4000 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (600 gp).

Description: A stocky lighter skinned man, he dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. He sports a long silver beard, and similarly colored long hair. He has brown eyes and a white hat with a violet feather.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He works hard and plays hard.

History: He was born in a small mountains village. Az-Adar liked to wander the woods near his home when he was young, something he still likes to do at least once a week. He never liked modest clothing or shoes, so he would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and he developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Philantrophist, Persistence. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 11000 gp. Deep blue spinel (1600 gp). Moss agate (8 gp). Chalcedony (20 gp). Banded agate (8 gp).