Description: He is lean but muscular and wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. He keeps his white hair in a flapper bob. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are amber.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: Born in the east his family was never financially stable. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a daughter. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Guardian, Poor, In love. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 1000 gp. Banded agate (16 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1300 gp). Malachite (16 gp). Red garnet (50 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. His brown hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. His amber eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as he rather likes the sound of his voice. His demeanor is somewhat feminine. He is stubborn though. He always likes to keep a trick up his sleeve. He likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if he feels he even has a chance of losing.

History: Varis was born in the north. At a young age he loved to build and create. Like his mother and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Jeweler. He used his abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Jeweler responsibilities is difficult; and someone believes him a fraud

Ideals: Optimist, Persistence. Bonds: Criminal record, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 90 pp.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright pastel and green, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. He keeps his golden hair in a flapper bob. 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 cautious and jumpy. He reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: His divine talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Erdan grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Erdan. 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: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Ideals: Persistence, Gifted. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 2200 gp. Old masterpiece painting (1800 gp).

Description: He is an average looking northern male in his early mid-life. He is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest. He has a long golden beard with little hanging trinkets. His eyes are likewise gray. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He has two modes he varies between. On the job he is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job he is a party animal. He is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: Aust lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. His mother worked until he suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. He had to support his now crippled mother and took his mother's old job. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Lazy. Bonds: Job, Family, Criminal record. Occupation: Server

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: 4000 gp. Sard (80 gp). Fire opal (1600 gp). Black pearl (1000 gp). Rhodochrosite (11 gp). Rose (80 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1000 gp). Deep blue spinel (1000 gp). Aquamarine (1000 gp). Hematite (11 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is dressed in a clean blue cloak covering his clean studded leather. He is bald on top and has large black tufts of hair around his ears. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. His temper goes off on the smallest of things. He tends to lash out at those around him.

History: He comes from a rich northern family. While he appears to be a normal Elf, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and money/treasure

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Insane. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 1400 gp. Malachite (16 gp). Banded agate (16 gp). Rhodochrosite (16 gp). Brown-green garnet (120 gp). Moss agate (16 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.