Description: The man speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. He seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if he got out from a pool a few moments ago. He is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. He keeps his red crest in a flapper bob. He has several tiny amethyst earrings on each ear.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: Vrondiss was born with his father's beautiful face. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it.

Flaws: Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Server

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This eastern man wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His clothes are grease stained in places. He has silver hair. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: Gomory is a sociable creature first and foremost. He loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. He can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. 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: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. Gomory was born on a far eastern desert where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Shepherd. He left for the east, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Extrovert. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 8000 sp. Freshwater pearl (6 gp). Banded agate (6 gp). Eye agate (6 gp). Jasper (60 gp). Chrysoprase (60 gp). Onyx (60 gp). Deep green spinel (130 gp).

Description: He is an average looking southern male in his early mid-life. He wears a fine chain shirt which he covers with brown colored cloaks and clothing. He is bald on top and has large white tufts of hair around his ears. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines brown.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. His temper goes off on the smallest of things. He tends to lash out at those around him.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He seems to be bored by most things; and to find somewhere to settle down

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Antagonistic, Mundane. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: He is a mite stocky and wears light armors faded through time and improper care. He keeps his scarlet crest in a pixie cut. He has a dull look in his gold eyes.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. 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 Healer. He has worked as a Healer like his mother before him.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and balancing his hectic life and new healer responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Shy, Forgetful. Bonds: Military, Job. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 1000 gp. Embroidered and bejeweled glove (2000 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (700 gp). Gold music box (2000 gp). Silver ewer (10 gp).