Description: He is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. He is portly but not overly obese. His bronze crest is heavily combed to the right. He wears large thick round spectacles.

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 uses divination through singing.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and retire the richest man in the east

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 6000 gp. Deep blue spinel (300 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (7 gp). Onyx (70 gp). Blue quartz (7 gp). Rock crystal (70 gp). Rose (70 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: With grey face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. With bright red hair and a scraggly beard. His blue eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He exudes charisma. He is a tour de force of persuasion. More though he will beg to come along on any journeys. He will attempt to stowaway on any ship he can in the hopes that it will get him further away.

History: The child of southern immigrants he idolized his mother. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero.

Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Attractive, Slave, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: His right side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He wears a green collared shirt and white pants. He accessorizes with a blue scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. He has no hair. He has brown eyes and a green hat with a white feather.

Personality: A deeply religious man he believes everything happens for a reason. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing poetry.

History: He was born in a small desert village. His childhood dream was to be a Herbalist, but he was a colossal failure. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Expand his business.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Religious, Nature, Job. Occupation: Server

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 40 pp. Bloodstone (70 gp). Lapis lazuli (13 gp). Black pearl (600 gp).

Description: He is a pot bellied eastern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. He wears a small hat to cover his moderate length cinnamon fur. His skin is flawless and his amber eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: This man loves painting and to teach people painting more than just about anything. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: The child of eastern immigrants he idolized his mother. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He left for the east, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic, Justice. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 1000 gp. Amethyst (160 gp). Malachite (9 gp). Carnelian (40 gp). Obsidian (9 gp). Carnelian (40 gp). Citrine (40 gp). Amethyst (160 gp). Lapis lazuli (9 gp).

Description: He is lean but muscular and is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes.. He sports a flattop fur cut. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: The child of northern immigrants he idolized his mother. 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. Recently a tribe of drow attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Emerald fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and he will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact

Ideals: Persistence, Fighting. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: Just what you see.