Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he wears a black tunic with yellow highlights, and long pastel pants that bunch up around his shoes. He has golden hair. His gray eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: Theren hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his writing career. 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: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. His parents divorced when he was young, and his father gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his father, who blamed him for driving them apart. He has worked as a Laborer like his father before him.

Motivation: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help; and he has decided he is irredeemable

Ideals: Artistic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 600 gp. Moonstone (50 gp). Banded agate (11 gp). Smoky quartz (50 gp). Black opal (500 gp). Moss agate (11 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This eastern man wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with deerstalker hat. His clothes are grease stained in places. His red hair is braided into rings. This amber eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the east. He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: He was born in the east. After coming to the age of reason, Laucian took it upon himself to study the arcane arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and wants to raise his children well

Ideals: Pacifist, Gifted. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 30000 cp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy brown stubble. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He has a hunchback. He keeps his long brown hair kept up in a rat tail. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He will rave to anyone who will listen. He has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: His martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. After coming to the age of reason, Riardon took it upon himself to study the martial arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear; and retire the richest man in the south

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Fearful. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: Peridot (60 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (14 gp). Sard (60 gp). Red-brown spinel (80 gp). Red spinel (80 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1600 gp). Star ruby (1000 gp). Golden pearl (80 gp). Aquamarine (1600 gp). Violet garnet (1600 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. He carries with him a set of scimitars on his belt, each one with a emerald on the hilt. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy white hair. His eyes are gray.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. He cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist he will grow angry at them.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. 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 Locksmith. In the meantime he has taken over work as a Locksmith and occasionally as a mercenary.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 1000 gp. Eye agate (5 gp). Black star sapphire (1400 gp).

Description: This late middle aged man wears violet leather gloves, a violet jacket, and tight pants and is in decent physical shape. He sports a long red beard, and similarly colored long hair. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep blue.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. 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 was born in the west. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Elves in the west were limited. He became a Unemployed soon after.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 1800 gp. An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (50 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (10 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.