Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His chestnut hair is braided into rings. His blue eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. He also hits on women, regardless of circumstances.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Cartwright arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Over the years he perfected his riding and shooting skills. He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Has a crush, Rich, Nature. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 200 gp. Amber (50 gp). Blue star sapphire (600 gp). Aquamarine (400 gp).

Description: 4'8" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He tends to wear a large violet jacket. His hair is cut close to his head. He has gleaming, smiling amber eyes.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Lucan will drive conversation. When triggered he is a bloodthirsty maniac, stopping at nothing and killing everything for almost an hour.

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. 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 Spice Merchant. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal.

Ideals: Extrovert, Gifted. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 600 gp. Onyx (30 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is of a modest build and height, but he carries himself more imposing than he is. He likes to wear grey tank tops with black pants. He keeps his blonde hair in a pixie cut. He has green eyes and a grey hat with a black feather.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes illithids are coming to abduct people. Despite his manner, he is extremely passionate and proud of his job, and he prides himself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 8 years.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear; and he is greedy

Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Enemies, Job, Military, Rich. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 500 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a mite stocky and has a large brown mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into his tan robe. His hair is silver and curly. His eyes are green and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He exudes charisma. He is a tour de force of persuasion. He has a habit of throwing himself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. 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 Tailor. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: Marry his brother to traveling adventurers; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother

Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Job, Family. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 4000 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This fat eastern man has a bulbous nose and wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with broad hat. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His blonde hair, when down, is lengthy. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep blue.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: He comes from a rich eastern family. His parents were killed by orcs in a raid when he was still a young child. The orcs captured him, and made him a slave and general play-thing. He was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to his deformed appearance. 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 wants to meet his childhood hero; and someone believes him a fraud

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 100000 cp. Lapis lazuli (14 gp). Alexandrite (500 gp). White opal (700 gp). Star rose quartz (40 gp). Bloodstone (40 gp). 1 Minor magic item.