Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He wears a pastel cloak and cross-gartered brown stockings. His auburn hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He has two modes he varies between. On the job he is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job he is a party animal. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: Varis was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Painter for hire.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Religious. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 500 pp. Solid gold idol (200 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (1000 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He typically wears white cloth garments or leather armor. He has no hair. He has gleaming, smiling amber eyes.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. He receives visions of the future at random moments

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Ostracized due to the psionic powers of his oldest brother, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Dwarves became a terror of the countryside. He struck the Unemployed job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: He seems to be bored by most things; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He is of a modest build and height, but he carries himself more imposing than he is. He is dressed in a clean grey cloak covering his clean studded leather. His head has been shaved. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He is fixated on the number 79. He counts his steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. He seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. He has all his life been fascinated with writing.

History: His necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. 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: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and money/treasure

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 300 sp.

Description: He dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. His skin is fair and his fingers are delicate and long. His blonde hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He likes to brag about his accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. He has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Umpen grew up listening to his father's many stories. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. He is searching for what he claims is his rightful reward.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Passionate, Fighting. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 20 gp. Rock crystal (70 gp).

Description: This malnourished man wears a blue tunic with brown highlights, and long red pants that bunch up around his shoes. His scarlet crest is singed and shortened. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: A grumpy guy he will invite people to lunch so he can critique them. Yet he still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. He refers to his adoptive father for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. Being born in the north, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the north for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way west. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and marry his sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Family, Military. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 1600 gp. Moss agate (12 gp). Violet garnet (1300 gp). Alexandrite (1300 gp). Violet garnet (1300 gp). Azurite (12 gp). Blue sapphire (1000 gp). Black pearl (1300 gp). Sard (60 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.