Description: The light-skinned man stands 4'7" and wears tattered old clothes. With bright silver hair and a scraggly beard. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He has all his life been fascinated with writing.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. His father was a soldier and died while he was still young. Aust was left his father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Dilettante.

Motivation: To be a Gardener again; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Nature, Military. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 5000 sp. Coral (150 gp). Chalcedony (60 gp). Chrysoprase (60 gp).

Description: He appears as an extremely gaunt Elf, and stands approximately 4'7". He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it, and his gloved hand is found clutching a falchion. His chestnut hair and beard is wavy and long. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are blue.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes brigands are coming to abduct people. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of brigands once and for all.

History: Naal was born the youngest of three triplets. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Crown-heir. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by brigands. Naal was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the brigands.

Motivation: He feels threatened by others; and expand his business

Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Enemies, Family, Job. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: Blue quartz (5 gp).

Description: The dark-skinned man stands 4'7" and wears silk and lounges about seductively. He has done his best to style his red hair to look like a famous performer. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He is a man who does what he needs to. He will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. He takes great pride in his work and is very well organized. His planner is full of calendar events.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He now owns his own business.

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

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 5000 gp. Azurite (7 gp). Malachite (7 gp). Blue quartz (7 gp). Black star sapphire (1400 gp). Tourmaline (160 gp). Blue star sapphire (1400 gp). Brown-green garnet (160 gp). Azurite (7 gp). Silver pearl (160 gp). Emerald (1400 gp). Tourmaline (160 gp). Black pearl (300 gp). Red spinel (160 gp). Tourmaline (160 gp). Golden yellow topaz (300 gp). Silver pearl (160 gp). Red-brown spinel (160 gp). Star ruby (1400 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). His blonde hair is singed and shortened. His amber eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He hates giants. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He can't help but pocket interesting objects he comes across

History: He comes from a rich western family. Because his father participated in the massacre of their homeland, giants burned their ranch to the ground and forced them out. He was preparing to flee to the west, but the outbreak of war prevented him and his mother from journeying west to reunite his family. After months of barely getting by, Dayereth managed to ambush a major caravan with a load of valuables. Instantly wealthy, he made his way to the capital under a new identity.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and someone believes him a fraud

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Criminal record, Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 1000 gp. Star rose quartz (50 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (10 gp). Rhodochrosite (10 gp). Violet garnet (1400 gp). Deep blue spinel (1400 gp). Banded agate (10 gp). Carnelian (50 gp). Silver pearl (60 gp). Azurite (10 gp). Banded agate (10 gp). Hematite (10 gp). Pink pearl (60 gp). Sardonyx (50 gp). Freshwater pearl (10 gp). Azurite (10 gp). Eye agate (10 gp). Rose (50 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1400 gp).

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy brown stubble. He tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. He has a hunchback. He has styled his brown hair well, parting it to the right. His violet eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: His psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He always admired psionic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable; and he is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Justice, Gifted, Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Religious, Criminal record. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 1200 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp). A pair of blacksmith’s puzzle; each has a pair of interlocked iron designs that users try to take apart and put back together (40 gp).