Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He likes to wear ponchos typically of a light tan in addition to tight pants. His silver hair is cut short. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He hates dire rats. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He lacks moral complications. He does what he is told to by employers but not much else. He spends his money on whatever he fancies at the time.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Fortune-teller arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Cursed with unlife at a very young age, Uthemar has worked very hard to control his curse. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and revenge

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Enemies, Job, Rich. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 32000 sp. Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (300 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (80 gp).

Description: He wears a black shirt with thin violet vertical stripes and black pants. He is physically well-built. His blonde hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He considers himself a man of culture and sophistication. He likes a good challenge to his wits. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. As a young adult he joined a group advocating for an improvement in Elven conditions. 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: His religion dominates his actions; and he feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Religious. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 1500 gp.

Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He wears a black vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His white leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his black boots flare out at the collars. He has dyed his greying blue crest a little too much giving a sharp blue color. His eyes are gold and catlike.

Personality: He is irritable and easily angered. He is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use his stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. He also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: Dadalan lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Being born in the west, 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 west 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 north. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

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

Ideals: Athletic, Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic, Impulsive. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 1100 gp.

Description: His left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. He wears his white hair up. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He receives visions of the future at random moments

History: His arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. Being born in the south, 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 south 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 north. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Family, Rich. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 41000 sp. Solid gold idol (700 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). 1 Breastplate. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Chain shirt. 1 Chain shirt.

Description: A plain young-adult man, he dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. His long black hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His half smiles and gray eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Crown-heir hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the south; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Mentor. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 7000 sp.