Description: His right side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He wears a black costume with the symbols of the sun god on his torso. His head has been shaved. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. 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: He was born into a rich family. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Rich, Religious. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 700 sp. 1 Everburning torch. 3 Tanglefoot bags. 2 Thunderstones.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He wears a white cloak and cross-gartered grey stockings. His long chestnut hair reaches down to his waist. His eyes are likewise amber. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He takes great joy in being the best Sage in town.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. Recently a tribe of giants attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Nicholas fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Expand his business; and balancing his hectic life and new sage responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Nature. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 1500 sp. Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). 1 Climber’s kit.

Description: He is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright white and blue, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. He has moderate length silver hair. He has amber eyes and a white hat with a blue feather.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He will often invite strangers home for dinner and talk their ears off. He cares deeply for his spouse and does his best to make sure his guests look presentable.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. He was an adventurer many years ago and he formed a blood bond with his Human companion (his 'brother'). 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: To reunite with his old friends.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Rich, In love, Religious, Adventurer. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Sage. His long golden hair reaches down to his waist. His eyes are brown.

Personality: He trusts no one. He is not readily capable for forgiveness and his ire never leaves him. He lacks restraint and is impulsive. He jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: He got into the Sage business at a young age. Through the years after Thomas was born, his father became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the north. Thomas's father didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. In the meantime he has taken over work as a Sage and occasionally as a mercenary.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends.

Flaws: Antagonistic, Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 300 gp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (300 gp). Gold music box (1000 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (120 gp). 4 Alchemist’s fire.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears light armors faded through time and improper care. His black hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. His fierce brown eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He exudes charisma. He is a tour de force of persuasion. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. 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 is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Ideals: Professionalism, Logical. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 200 gp. A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (60 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1000 gp). 1 Minor magic item.