Description: This tall, slender man has the majority of his body covered in plate. His golden hair, when down, is lengthy. His amber eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He is quite rude, and likes to deride his opponents skill and shout insults at them. 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: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Ostracized due to the martial powers of his oldest brother, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Elves became a terror of the countryside. After a long history of fighting, Paelias and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Logical, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 200 gp. Banded agate (5 gp). Alexandrite (1100 gp). Moss agate (5 gp). Violet garnet (1100 gp). Red spinel (90 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears professional attire. His skin is fair and his fingers are delicate and long. He has a very tight haircut. His gray eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Arannis was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. Arannis was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Arannis decided he wanted neither the life of his father nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. He has worked as a Layabout like his father before him.

Motivation: Expand his business.

Bonds: Attractive, Job, Criminal record, Mentor, Family. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 1000 gp.

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he has a large brown mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into his black robe. His long golden hair reaches down to his waist. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He will rave to anyone who will listen. He is ready at a moment's notice to give into his darker urges. He is a real pyromaniac and does not care who the fire hurts. He often ends up burning people alive in the fires he starts.

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. A few years later when the east was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

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 has decided he is irredeemable

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Criminal record, Immigrant. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 1300 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears professional attire, and he perpetually has his bow ready. He has wavy auburn hair. His violet eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: Theriatis was born in the east. At a young age he loved to build and create. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and seeks redemption

Ideals: Fighting, Professionalism, Persistence. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 1500 gp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (500 gp). Solid gold idol (500 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This late middle aged man typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep black leather and dull brown iron scale mail and is in decent physical shape. His chestnut hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He has schizophrenia that causes him to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. He plays an instrument quite well.

History: He got into the Animal Trainer business at a young age. In his youth he was part of a gang. He got caught, but did not rat out his comrades and served his time in prison. Being a Animal Trainer kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions; and he feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Insane, Disease. Bonds: Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: Violet garnet (1600 gp). Fire opal (400 gp). Tourmaline (120 gp). Jade (120 gp). Alexandrite (1600 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.