Description: He likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. He has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. He sports a flattop hair cut. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. He loves teas. He is very sensitive about his face. To blow off anger he lifts weights and to control his otherwise explosive temper he works out a lot.

History: Rolen was raised in a hard working conservative environment. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Rolen 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 Rolen. He struck the Spice Merchant job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: To protect his home; and a rival would like him out of the picture

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Job, Criminal record, Guardian. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 70 pp. Alexandrite (200 gp). Moonstone (30 gp). Red-brown spinel (120 gp). Jade (120 gp). Tourmaline (120 gp).

Description: This slender man stands about 5'0". He usually wears his yellow robe and has his nunchaku always slung over his shoulder. He keeps his long silver hair kept up in a rat tail. He has green eyes.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. On top of that he is swayed by a pretty face, and while loyalty to his employer will always come first he doesn't like to hit women.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a daughter. Lacking all sense, he decided to go on an adventure. He picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero.

Ideals: Justice, Fighting. Bonds: Has a crush, Adventurer, In love. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 12000 sp. Large well-done wool tapestry (500 gp). Finely wrought small gold bracelet (40 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (200 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1000 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This light-skinned male prefers to wear flannel. He is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. He has styled his auburn hair well, parting it to the right. He has gleaming, smiling green eyes.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the north. He invites people to come help in his community garden.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Being born in the north, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the north for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way south. He has been saving his money to try and buy his sister's freedom.

Motivation: Regain custody of his son.

Ideals: Pacifist, Philantrophist. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: He dresses in green turtlenecks beneath a blue coat with red slacks. He has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. His auburn hair is greasy and uncared for. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes gnolls are coming to abduct people. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Carrie was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. Carrie abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. He has dedicated himself to building a better world.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Elven artifacts is his passion; and he's looking for his big break

Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac. Bonds: Enemies, Adventurer, Mentor. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Can't modulate volume

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

Description: He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. He carries a battered shield and tarnished rapier as well. He wears a top hat to cover his moderate length brown hair. His green unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. At a young age both his parents were killed in an accident. His uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took him in and had him trained in basic self defense. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact; and he is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 8000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.