Description: He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment, and he perpetually has his hammer ready. His white hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His eyes are brown.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, he has a hard time making friends. He works hard and plays hard.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. He inherited a moderately successful company from his father. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and he is greedy

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic, Hedonist. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 2200 gp. Onyx (60 gp). White pearl (50 gp). Sard (60 gp). Star rose quartz (60 gp). Onyx (60 gp). Rhodochrosite (11 gp).

Description: He is an average looking southern male in his early mid-life. He wears a fine chain shirt which he covers with tan colored cloaks and clothing. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His gray unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks his mind. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage son.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Dyer arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. At a young age he wooed the heart of his future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Miner they were divorced and he won custody of their son. He worked as a Dyer, and he later adopted a second son.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found.

Flaws: Disease, Shy. Bonds: Family, Rich, In love. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 6000 sp. Blue star sapphire (1100 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This southern man wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. His clothes are grease stained in places. He wears a top hat to hide his balding. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. 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: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. He was an adventurer many years ago and he formed a blood bond with his Elven companion (his 'brother'). He left for the south, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and expand his business

Ideals: Disciplined. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Job, Slave, Adventurer. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 170 pp.

Description: A pudgy man standing about 5'5" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He is well dressed, constantly wearing a white suit, green shirt, and blue tie. His white hair is lengthy. He is baby faced.

Personality: He is a sleazy, sleazy guy. He has no qualms about using his powers of suggestion to get people to do what he wants. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: Vanuath was born with his mother's beautiful face. He sought a place where he would be rewarded solely on the merits of his skills. This search led him directly into Ruler work with an outfit from a few towns over. Ruler work suited him well, and with each successful project, he earned more gold and more respect from his peers. Some 10 years later his spouse died after the birth of his daughter. Heartbroken, Vanuath never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his daughter whom he trained as his mother had trained him before.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Justice. Bonds: Attractive, Job, In love, Family. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 700 gp.

Description: He is in excellent shape and wears a green shirt, with a red mid length shorts with red tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. His silver hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His eyes are violet and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Adran will drive conversation. He constantly seizes attention wherever he goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. He likes to think of himself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He inherited a moderately successful company from his father. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. 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 doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes.

Ideals: Athletic, Extrovert, Impeccable, Logical. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 1000 pp. Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1700 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1700 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (30 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (140 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (900 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1700 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1700 gp). Solid gold idol (900 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (900 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1700 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1700 gp). 1 Medium magic item.