Description: This man wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized black coat, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His golden hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. He has several tiny sapphire earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with music. He constantly tries to fill his life with music. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered music. 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 has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Rich, Religious. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: 6'6" and muscular, this northern man wears many layers of old clothing at all times. His chestnut hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. His eyes are gray.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the north. He can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: Bertram hails from a village terrorized by drow. His parents were killed by drow in a raid when he was still a young child. The drow captured him, and made him a slave and general play-thing. He was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to his deformed appearance. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to drow demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Revenge; and he wants revenge against drow

Ideals: Athletic, Pacifist, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Enemies. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 600 gp. An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (40 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1400 gp).

Description: She is a physically imposing light-skinned woman. She wears a black wide-brimmed hat and black clothes. Her hair, while still mostly brown, has prominent grey streaks. Her hazel unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. She has a cruel streak; something she gained from her previous mentor. She harbors resentment against her former mentor.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. Like her father and her brother before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Bellfounder. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Bellfounder for the past few years.

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

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Disease, Antagonistic. Bonds: Guardian, Mentor, Job. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 6000 sp. Deep blue spinel (800 gp). Blue star sapphire (800 gp). Emerald (800 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is well dressed, but even with her fine clothing she looks run-down. She is portly but not overly obese. Her tied-back hair is white. She has gleaming, smiling blue eyes.

Personality: Prone to second guessing herself, she comes off as nervous. She is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of her. She is by nature obliging.

History: Trained by her father for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. She worked as a nervous Stylist and found it very stressful. She became a Stylist soon after.

Motivation: She loathes her own lifestyle; and expand her business

Flaws: Shy, Depressed. Bonds: Military, Job. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 600 gp. Coral (60 gp).