Description: The dark-skinned man stands 5'10" and wears a simple white robe with brown stripes complete with hood. He sports a long chestnut beard, and similarly colored long hair. He is baby faced.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. His mother was a soldier and died while he was still young. Theobald was left his mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. He tends to his Slave Trader job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: Expand his business; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Opinionated, Logical. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Military, Job. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: This exceptionally lanky man dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. He wears a broad hat to cover his moderate length golden hair. His violet eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. He refers to his adoptive father for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: He comes from a rich western family. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He bought a crossbow and has really upped his game hunting, due to his understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it.

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, Rich, Nature. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. He carries his fan with him everywhere and carries himself as the perfect gentleman. He keeps his blonde hair in a pixie cut. His hazel eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. Being born in the east, 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 east 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 south. 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 share knowledge with the world; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother

Ideals: Gifted, Logical, Fighting. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He wears many layers of old clothing at all times. He has dyed his greying brown hair a little too much giving a sharp brown color. His hazel eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with painting. He constantly tries to fill his life with painting. He loves teas. He is very sensitive about his face. To blow off anger he lifts weights and to control his otherwise explosive temper he works out a lot.

History: He was born in the north. His father took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Artistic, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Nature. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: Blue quartz (16 gp). Rhodochrosite (16 gp). Violet garnet (300 gp).

Description: This man wears a fancy brown suit, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His auburn hair is knotted and matted. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: Nicholas is depressed about a lot of things. He tends to be a nihilist. He cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist he will grow angry at them.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. 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. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and he has passion for adventuring and risk

Flaws: Depressed, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Minor magic item.