Description: This man wears well tailored suits and hats with beautiful decoration. He is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. He has a long chestnut beard with little hanging trinkets. His eyes are a pleasant hazel.

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, Gubrash is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: Gubrash lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Dilettante they were divorced and he won custody of their son. He worked as a Gardener, and he later adopted a second son.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother.

Ideals: Passionate, Justice, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 20 pp. Embroidered and bejeweled glove (2000 gp). A pair of blacksmith’s puzzle; each has a pair of interlocked iron designs that users try to take apart and put back together (10 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This late middle aged man wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress) and is in decent physical shape. He wears his silver hair down. His eyes are hazel.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. He is underhanded and not above using his wealth and body to get others to do his bidding.

History: The child of northern immigrants he idolized his father. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and expand his business

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Rich, Job. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 600 gp.

Description: This late middle aged man is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times and is in decent physical shape. His golden hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His brown unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Wrenn is depressed about a lot of things. He tends to be a nihilist. He constantly seizes attention wherever he goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. He likes to think of himself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: He got into the Bather business at a young age. 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 Bather. He became a Bather soon after.

Motivation: To be a Courier again; and balancing his hectic life and new bather responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Disease, Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 38000 sp. Red-brown spinel (140 gp). Red-brown spinel (140 gp).

Description: With grey face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he wears a brown coat over a white low-cut shirt, and a small hat upon his head. His hair is brown and very short. His eyes are black and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He hates gnolls. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: Barakas was born the youngest of three triplets. His mother disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his mother, he was betrayed dozens of times. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He is greedy; and regain custody of his daughter

Ideals: Professionalism. Bonds: Enemies, Family, Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1700 gp). A delicate brass dragon egg (90 gp).

Description: An older man who wears just a yellow suit, he is not a threatening figure. His brown fur, when down, is lengthy. He has a dull look in his yellow eyes.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. He has a cruel streak; something he gained from his previous mentor. He harbors resentment against his former mentor.

History: He is a Chromatic Dragon in disguise. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Windy grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Windy. He has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: Meet up once more with his childhood friend.

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Mentor, Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 700 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.