Description: This light-skinned male prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. He carries his fan with him everywhere and carries himself as the perfect gentleman. He is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His gray unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He likes to fabricate stories about his past exploits and how crazy he is, but in actuality he is rather bland. Aust is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his brothers into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: Aust lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and marry his brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Disease, Mundane. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 140 pp. Freshwater pearl (14 gp). Coral (130 gp). Iolite (70 gp). Rhodochrosite (14 gp). Jet (130 gp). Freshwater pearl (14 gp). Violet garnet (1200 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He prefers to wear flannel. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. He has dyed his greying black hair a little too much giving a sharp black color. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. He is underhanded and not above using his wealth and body to get others to do his bidding.

History: Arannis was born with his mother's beautiful face. His mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark.

Flaws: Terse. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 350 pp. Sardonyx (60 gp). Eye agate (4 gp). Moonstone (60 gp). Malachite (4 gp). Black pearl (300 gp). Deep blue spinel (300 gp). Rock crystal (60 gp).

Description: He is well dressed, constantly wearing a black suit, blue shirt, and grey tie. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. He wears a colorful flower in his golden hair. He has violet eyes and a black hat with a blue feather.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with writing. He constantly tries to fill his life with writing. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his mother.

History: Gifted from a young age, Eiravel studied abroad. Ostracized due to the divine powers of his oldest sister, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Elves became a terror of the countryside. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Artistic, Entrepeneur, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 60 pp. Embroidered and bejeweled glove (2000 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (600 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is very fat, and wears a suit in poor condition. It has not been laundered in sometime and has been worn in activities one would not normally wear a suit during. His moppish red hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep blue.

Personality: The man has a huge range of feeling. He will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how he will be a better person from this day on. He is obsessed with his god.

History: When he was but 6 years old his parents immigrated from the north. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. He left for the north, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and obtaining odd cultural elven artifacts is his passion

Flaws: Ugly, Emotional. Bonds: Adventurer, Religious, Immigrant. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, he wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. He has brown hair. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

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: Traki was born the youngest of three triplets. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Painter hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To unite with his brother.

Ideals: Gifted, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Family. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 200 gp. Pink pearl (90 gp).