Description: This tall, slender man likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. His hair is auburn and very short. His gray 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 is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Over the years he perfected his riding and shooting skills. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Regain custody of his son; and he desires power and/or immortality

Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Nature, Family. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 800 gp. Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (800 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (800 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears professional attire. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. His hair is long and golden with streaks of silver, and is pulled back with small black clips. His beard is silver, braided, and well cared for. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. Any perceived weakness will be pressed and exploited. He is seen as merciless and passionate.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. As a young adult he joined a group advocating for an improvement in Dwarven conditions. He used his abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the south; and he feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 1300 gp. Lapis lazuli (11 gp). Sardonyx (50 gp). Alexandrite (1200 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1200 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a robe, a symbol of luck around his neck, and a shield on his belt. He carries with him a set of shields on his belt, each one with a opal on the hilt. His long chestnut hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His fierce gray eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. 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, Bilbron is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: He was born in the north. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he is greedy

Ideals: Fighting, Passionate, Justice. Bonds: Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 16000 sp. Peridot (60 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (1100 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a tea of some kind. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment, marred by teas. He sports a long silver beard, and similarly colored long hair. His eyes are amber and catlike.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Crown-heir born in the past three hundred years. Bulzo enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Bulzo lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 1700 sp. Malachite (12 gp).