Description: He wears long strands of sapphire and short white dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths, and carries flails. With a patchy white beard and wild white hair. He has gleaming, smiling amber eyes.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: Alex was born with his mother's beautiful face. 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 has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk; and obtaining odd cultural human artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Fighting, Justice. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Attractive. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 5000 sp. Amber (90 gp).

Description: A moderately attractive man, he wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his kukri with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. He has styled his brown hair well, parting it to the right. His eyes are violet and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is someone who is used to having a large amount of sex appeal. He also lacks a concept of privacy and shares just about everything. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. In his journeys he found a malevolent artifact. He wishes to return this artifact and its corrupting influence back to where it came.

Motivation: To protect his home; and retire the richest man in the north

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Guardian. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 500 gp. Chalcedony (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking northern young adult. She dresses in violet turtlenecks beneath a brown coat with blue slacks. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. With wild black hair. Her green eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. 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: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. Her father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Slave, Family, Rich. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 300 gp. Star rose quartz (30 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: 5'4" and lanky with angular features, she is an attractive figure. She wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with grey lining and desert motifs. Her black hair has been sun bleached extensively. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. She receives visions of the future at random moments

History: She was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for her. It may also be what makes her so good at details. Brilliant and gifted she never wanted to apply herself. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and she wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted. Flaws: Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 600 gp. Fire opal (1100 gp). Blue sapphire (1100 gp). Deep blue spinel (800 gp).