Description: A moderately attractive man, he wears baggy black pantaloons and a tan scarf. He has shaved his head bald. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day he will do what he thinks is right.

History: He was born at the edge of vast desert. Being born in the south, 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 south 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 north. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent father; and to unite with his sister

Ideals: Philantrophist, Justice. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Family. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 100 pp. Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (2400 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1400 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (2400 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (100 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (100 gp). A silver and pearl hairclip (50 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (2400 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he is dressed in a clean tan cloak covering his clean studded leather. His brown hair and beard is wavy and long. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady gray eyes.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. To his fellows he is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: His psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. 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 Scribe. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Scribe.

Motivation: Expand his business.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Terse. Bonds: Enemies, Job. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 10000 gp. Deep green spinel (50 gp). Alexandrite (900 gp). Deep blue spinel (900 gp). Alexandrite (900 gp). Malachite (6 gp). Aquamarine (900 gp). Moonstone (70 gp). Hematite (6 gp). Blue quartz (6 gp). Azurite (6 gp). Blue quartz (6 gp). Star rose quartz (70 gp). White pearl (50 gp). Aquamarine (900 gp). Rose (70 gp). Deep green spinel (50 gp). Golden pearl (50 gp). Pink pearl (50 gp). Violet garnet (900 gp).

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. His brown hair is matted, messy, and big. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines amber.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. 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 is content.

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist, Mundane. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 1100 gp. Star ruby (400 gp). Carnelian (70 gp). Aquamarine (1600 gp). Rhodochrosite (13 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is renowned for his bright black suits and hats. He wears his chestnut hair up. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. His job bores him to no end. He has decided to make it more interesting.

History: Heir to a fortune, his parents put a great deal of effort into curing his disease. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal; and he has passion for adventuring and risk

Flaws: Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 700 gp. Carnelian (40 gp). Banded agate (14 gp). Red-brown spinel (90 gp). Banded agate (14 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is wearing a tight brown one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 4'11" when asserting himself. He has a very tight haircut. His eyes are a pleasant brown.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the east. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Halimath grew up listening to his mother's many stories. 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. He came across an abandoned tomb where he found a relic that called out to him. After picking it up he was cursed by vampirism.

Motivation: He feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world; and to reunite with his old friends

Ideals: Pacifist, Impeccable. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Criminal record, Adventurer. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 220 pp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.