Description: This man is tall and muscular. He is well dressed, constantly wearing a red suit, tan shirt, and black tie. His head has been shaved. His eyes are brown and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Here is a man who knows he is the smartest in the room. He talks down to others constantly. He is cautious and jumpy. He reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: Varis was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his mother was employed at, doing general labor. In his 20th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He feels threatened by others.

Ideals: Athletic, Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This light-skinned male is renowned for his bright grey suits and hats. He is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His violet eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He is envious of other's things. He hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that he so desires. Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly.

History: He was born into a rich family. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and he has passion for adventuring and risk

Flaws: Greedy, Shy, Addict. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 6000 sp. Jasper (30 gp).

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. His black hair and beard is wavy and long. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with his opinion, he thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, he can get violently argumentative. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the south; and expand his business

Ideals: Opinionated, Entrepeneur, Logical. Bonds: Poor, Attractive. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 360 pp. Jasper (70 gp). Smoky quartz (70 gp). Red spinel (70 gp). Obsidian (13 gp). Alexandrite (200 gp). Moss agate (13 gp). Freshwater pearl (13 gp). Sardonyx (70 gp). Black pearl (200 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a husky man, who tends to wear a large white jacket. His red hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. His eyes are likewise amber. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes gnolls are coming to abduct people. He has a cruel streak; something he gained from his previous mentor. He harbors resentment against his former mentor.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Naal grew up listening to his father's many stories. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by gnolls, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Mentor, Adventurer. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 100 gp. Freshwater pearl (12 gp). Alexandrite (500 gp). Pink pearl (90 gp). Violet garnet (500 gp).

Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he has the majority of his body covered in plate. His auburn hair is knotted and matted. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He has a good heart but also a terrible temper. He will forgive often but not before yelling and berating someone for whatever they have done wrong. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: Mindartis was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his mother was employed at, doing general labor. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. After a long history of fighting, Mindartis and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and he uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Poor. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 5000 sp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (400 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (110 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (110 gp). 1 Minor magic item.