Description: He is lean but muscular and dresses well, wearing brown shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time. His white hair is cut short. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: Gilthur speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. He is clearly well-traveled and educated. He is always in debt, since he spends his money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: He comes from a rich southern family. His father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. 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: He uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs; and he feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 900 pp. Aquamarine (1300 gp). Jasper (50 gp). Citrine (50 gp). Jade (90 gp). Sard (50 gp). Peridot (50 gp). Chrysoberyl (90 gp). Freshwater pearl (6 gp). Lapis lazuli (6 gp). Coral (90 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She wears a worn and beaten armor. Her chestnut hair is long and unkept. Her green eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She is a Body Guard first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. She is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes her no end of embarrassment.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Like her mother and her sister before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Body Guard. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Body Guard responsibilities is difficult; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Forgetful. Bonds: Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 5000 gp. Freshwater pearl (7 gp). Black pearl (900 gp). Coral (160 gp). Banded agate (7 gp). Golden pearl (160 gp). Banded agate (7 gp). Eye agate (7 gp). Tourmaline (160 gp). Chalcedony (30 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (700 gp). Deep green spinel (160 gp). Violet garnet (900 gp). Peridot (30 gp). Tourmaline (160 gp). Chrysoprase (30 gp). Banded agate (7 gp). Deep green spinel (160 gp). Onyx (30 gp). Star rose quartz (30 gp).

Description: A plain young-adult man, he is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He is a Mason first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He invented a lineage for himself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: He was born in the north. Over the years he perfected his riding and shooting skills. He struck the Mason job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Mason responsibilities is difficult; and obtaining odd cultural half-orc artifacts is his passion

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Immigrant, Nature. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 7000 gp. Eye agate (12 gp). Amber (40 gp). White pearl (40 gp). Aquamarine (900 gp). Rhodochrosite (12 gp). Blue sapphire (400 gp). Rock crystal (60 gp). Golden yellow topaz (900 gp). Coral (40 gp). Amethyst (40 gp). Eye agate (12 gp). Freshwater pearl (12 gp). Golden yellow topaz (900 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: Standing 4'11", this woman wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized blue coat. Her black hair is lengthy. Her eyes are brown and beady.

Personality: She is envious of other's things. She hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that she so desires. Sariel enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: She was born several months after her father was called into army service. When Sariel reached her early adolescence her Elf father passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, she decided to travel. Her rounds led her into the Army with a few individuals who would become her life-long companions. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Flaws: Ugly, Greedy, Hedonist. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 1200 pp. Tiger eye turquoise (10 gp). Sardonyx (60 gp). Rose (60 gp). Hematite (10 gp). Star rose quartz (60 gp). Jet (70 gp). White pearl (70 gp). Blue sapphire (800 gp). Aquamarine (200 gp). Deep blue spinel (200 gp). White opal (800 gp). White pearl (70 gp). Red garnet (70 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She wears a black armored body suit, with a simple brown line shooting up and back down. She is portly but not overly obese. Her silver hair is singed and shortened. Her gold eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. She is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes her no end of embarrassment.

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. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the south.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Terse, Forgetful. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 10000 gp. Violet garnet (1000 gp). Smoky quartz (50 gp). Golden pearl (50 gp). Emerald (1100 gp). Moss agate (7 gp). Malachite (7 gp). Sardonyx (50 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (1100 gp). Zircon (50 gp). Jade (50 gp). Moonstone (50 gp). Lapis lazuli (7 gp). Alexandrite (1000 gp). Freshwater pearl (7 gp). Rhodochrosite (7 gp). Black opal (1100 gp). Star rose quartz (50 gp). Coral (50 gp). Red-brown spinel (50 gp). Moonstone (50 gp). Amber (50 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep grey leather and dull green iron scale mail. She carries with her a set of sais on her belt, each one with a jet on the hilt. Her silver hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a dagger scrunchie. She is baby faced.

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. As long as the job gets done she does not care how it got done.

History: She was raised by priests from a young age. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. Recently a tribe of brigands attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Eldeth fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Her religion dominates her actions; and she is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs

Ideals: Fighting, Professionalism. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 500 pp. Alexandrite (1400 gp). Star ruby (1100 gp). Alexandrite (1400 gp). Violet garnet (1400 gp). Chalcedony (80 gp). Aquamarine (1400 gp). Moonstone (80 gp). Rock crystal (80 gp). Deep green spinel (120 gp). Aquamarine (1400 gp). Jet (120 gp). Star rose quartz (80 gp). Bloodstone (80 gp). Rhodochrosite (12 gp). 1 Major magic item.

Description: He is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes.. He keeps his red hair in a flapper bob. His white eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. He claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day he will do what he thinks is right.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. His family was turned out during the war. He and his family wandered south to less war torn lands. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: PTSD. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Poor. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 4000 gp. Silver pearl (70 gp). Fire opal (1100 gp). Lapis lazuli (13 gp). Sard (20 gp). Golden pearl (70 gp). Eye agate (13 gp). Aquamarine (500 gp). Bloodstone (20 gp). Carnelian (20 gp). Aquamarine (500 gp).