Description: He is a paragon of his species. He is larger and stronger than most Elves. His skin is dark but he possesses many grey ritualistic tattoos. He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his warhammer with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. His blonde hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His eyes are hazel.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories he has discovered

History: When he was but 7 years old his parents immigrated from the south. Like his mother and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Guard. He was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of philosophers.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 500 pp. Citrine (30 gp). Lapis lazuli (13 gp). Black pearl (1200 gp). Bloodstone (30 gp).

Description: He wears tattered old clothes. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. His blonde hair is long and unkept. His brown eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He is curt in most of his responses. He prefers to keep his word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: The child of a Fortune-teller, who enjoyed hunting, Veit was taken on many hunting expeditions. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Nature, Rich. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 18000 gp. Sard (80 gp). Deep blue spinel (1200 gp). Red-brown spinel (140 gp). Hematite (8 gp). Malachite (8 gp). Rose (80 gp). Zircon (80 gp). Black pearl (1200 gp). Aquamarine (1200 gp). Smoky quartz (80 gp). Iolite (80 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: An older woman who prefers to wear grey pants and tee shirts, she is not a threatening figure. She wears her brown hair down. She has gleaming, smiling hazel eyes.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. She has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: She was born in the west, but her parents moved at a very young age to the east. At a young age she wooed the heart of her future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. She left for the west, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: She desires power and/or immortality.

Ideals: Disciplined, Justice. Bonds: Adventurer, Immigrant, In love. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 7000 gp. Amethyst (40 gp). Deep green spinel (40 gp). Bloodstone (60 gp). White opal (1400 gp). Fire opal (1400 gp). Clear bright green emerald (5000 gp). Black pearl (700 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He wears a tan vest and prefers yellow and green shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. His auburn hair is smooth and relatively long. His fierce hazel eyes like to dwell on things.

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

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. 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 Jeweler. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge; and balancing his hectic life and new jeweler responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Job, Enemies. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 8000 gp. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A stocky darker skinned man, he wears tattered old clothes. His black hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a small hat. His gray eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: A deeply religious man he believes everything happens for a reason. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He has achieved small success as a Bounty Hunter.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs; and to be a sage again

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Religious, Job. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 9000 gp. A delicate brass dragon egg (90 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (90 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (2100 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1500 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (90 gp). Jeweled gold crown (8000 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (200 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (90 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (90 gp). Jeweled gold crown (8000 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1500 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (500 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (200 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (90 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (200 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (90 gp).

Description: This malnourished man wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with broad hat. His brown hair, when down, is lengthy. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines violet.

Personality: He cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with his opinion, he thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, he can get violently argumentative. Flattery will make him almost putty in your hands.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. He got money to start a business from the gang present in town. He is greatly indebted to them.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and he is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Ugly, Selfish. Bonds: Poor, Religious. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 1200 pp. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. Her chestnut hair is smooth and relatively long. She tend to wears goggles to shield her eyes.

Personality: She is quite rude, and likes to deride her opponents skill and shout insults at them. She moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep her interest for a month it is impressive.

History: Her necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Ostracized due to the necromantic powers of her oldest sister, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Dwarves became a terror of the countryside. She has became unsatisfied with her lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: She's looking for her big break.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic, Hedonist. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 8000 gp. Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1700 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (300 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (300 gp). A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (50 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.