Description: He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. He has shaved his head bald. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. Cursed with unlife at a very young age, Naal has worked very hard to control his curse. In his journeys he found a malevolent artifact. He wishes to return this artifact and its corrupting influence back to where it came.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break.

Flaws: Secretive, Disease, Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Server

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 600 gp.

Description: This late middle aged man is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing green cape and mantle trimmed with soft white waves gently in the breeze and is in decent physical shape. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. He has brown eyes and a green hat with a white feather.

Personality: He has always had a great fascination with Elven culture. He is an amazing painter.

History: Uthemar lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a daughter. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: Regain custody of his daughter.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Rich, Family, In love. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 400 pp. A detailed rose, with petals and thorns, constructed of silver and electrum (30 gp). Solid gold idol (800 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (500 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1600 gp).

Description: This northern man is abnormally tall. He wears a tight fitting tan shirt and pants. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. With a patchy white beard and wild white hair. His amber eyes peer out from beneath his Stetson tan hat.

Personality: He exudes charisma. He is a tour de force of persuasion. His temper goes off on the smallest of things. He tends to lash out at those around him.

History: Heir to a fortune, his parents put a great deal of effort into curing his disease. Cursed with unlife at a very young age, Peren has worked very hard to control his curse. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs; and he is greedy

Flaws: Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 1000 gp. Brown-green garnet (120 gp). Black pearl (900 gp). Violet garnet (900 gp). Blue diamond (2000 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This malnourished man wears yellow trousers with white and yellow striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. With bright silver hair and a scraggly beard. His blue eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: Calm and collected, he is a well trained Miner. The war was a terrible time for him, and Thervan does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Poor, Job, Military. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 5000 gp. White pearl (160 gp). Black pearl (1100 gp). Chalcedony (70 gp). Deep green spinel (160 gp). Freshwater pearl (15 gp). Iolite (70 gp). Citrine (70 gp). Malachite (15 gp).

Description: This exceptionally lanky man wears dark leathers with embroidery. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy chestnut hair. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady green eyes.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk he knows how to make people feel guilty. He always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Sage business.

History: A powerful slaver made him what he is. His first spouse was a Herbalist, they had one son, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: Marry his sister to traveling adventurers; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Mentor, Family. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 100 pp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.