Description: This man is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized amethyst on his left hand. He wears his golden hair up. His eyes are likewise green. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. He is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. His mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Opinionated, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 280 gp. 2 Tanglefoot bags.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing brown cape and mantle trimmed with soft black waves gently in the breeze. He has done his best to style his white hair to look like a famous performer. His hazel eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. He always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Sage business.

History: Adelard was born in the east. At a young age he loved to build and create. 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 Sage. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Sage for the past few years.

Motivation: To be a Shoemaker again.

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He is an average looking southern male in his early mid-life. He prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. His red fur is smooth and relatively long. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He has a good heart but also a terrible temper. He will forgive often but not before yelling and berating someone for whatever they have done wrong. He is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. A serious injury left his mother unemployed and in need of constant care. His family became saddled with debt trying to care for his infirm mother. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: He made a deal with a demon which lead to his current lot in life, and he's becoming increasingly nervous about it; and he has money and likes to spend it

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Criminal record, Slave, Debt. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he dresses like a well dressed Priest does. His white hair is thinning but still full. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. He is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: He was born at the edge of vast forest. He worked as a nervous Priest and found it very stressful. He tends to his Priest job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Job, Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 200 pp. Star rose quartz (30 gp). Red garnet (90 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1600 gp). Blue quartz (13 gp). Jasper (30 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1600 gp). Moss agate (13 gp). Alexandrite (1600 gp). Deep blue spinel (1600 gp). Carnelian (30 gp). Rhodochrosite (13 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. He has styled his blonde hair well, parting it to the right. His eyes are a pleasant amber.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Merchant born in the past three hundred years. He is harsh and unforgiving.

History: Peren hails from a village terrorized by illithids. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother; and an old rival family wants him found

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Job, Enemies, Attractive, Family. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 360 pp. Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1000 gp). Jeweled anklet (4000 gp). A silver and pearl hairclip (20 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (1500 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (4000 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). 1 Minor magic item.