Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His brown hair is cut short. His hazel eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes brigands are coming to abduct people. His philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when brigands swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Performer hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to brigands demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by brigands, and he desires to right it.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Optimist. Bonds: Poor, Enemies, Religious. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 1100 gp. A delicate brass dragon egg (20 gp).

Description: This man is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. His hair is silver and curly. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady hazel eyes.

Personality: He has always had a great fascination with Elven culture. He is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: When he was but 7 years old his parents immigrated from the west. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Elves in the west were limited. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Adventurer, Immigrant. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 2200 gp. Jet (50 gp). Lapis lazuli (8 gp). Moss agate (8 gp). Chrysoprase (70 gp). Fire opal (1500 gp). White pearl (50 gp). Eye agate (8 gp). Sard (70 gp).

Description: He is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 5'2" when asserting himself. His moppish blonde hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His eyes are a pleasant brown.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. 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. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Logical. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Military, Family. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 3000 sp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (500 gp). Solid gold idol (500 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (80 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (80 gp).

Description: This man is tall and muscular. He dresses in brown turtlenecks beneath a yellow coat with black slacks. His hair is cut close to his head. His gray unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help his friends. He considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. He takes great pride in his work and is very well organized. His planner is full of calendar events.

History: Heian lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. His first spouse was a Doctor, they had one son, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Ideals: Athletic, Optimist. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 200 pp. Rhodochrosite (8 gp). Blue quartz (8 gp). Rock crystal (40 gp). Blue star sapphire (1100 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears just a brown suit. He carries with him a set of spears, each one with a jet on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. His chestnut hair is greasy and uncared for. He is baby faced.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: Paelias was born in the west. 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. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He is greedy.

Ideals: Fighting, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 600 gp.