Description: He is scrawny and has patchy silver stubble. He is dressed in earthy colors with a red and green handkerchief worn on his right side. He has a hunchback. He has a long silver beard with little hanging trinkets. He has several tiny amethyst earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: Raer hails from a village terrorized by dire rats. His mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He bought a falchion and has really upped his game hunting, due to his understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Rich, Enemies, Nature. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 1000 gp. Freshwater pearl (7 gp). Malachite (7 gp). Moonstone (70 gp). Pink pearl (50 gp). Sardonyx (70 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He is a mite stocky and tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. His brown hair is knotted and matted. His eyes are likewise gray.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. He is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: The child of eastern immigrants he idolized his father. He was one of the best in his class, and was picked up by his current employer. He quickly showed his capability and was soon promoted to a head role. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality.

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 20 pp. Bloodstone (60 gp).

Description: Standing 5'1", this man is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright tan and white, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. He has red hair. His green unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He snorts whenever he laughs or is feeling confident. Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly.

History: A powerful necromancer made him what he is. He was one of the best in his class, and was picked up by his current employer. He quickly showed his capability and was soon promoted to a head role. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

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 is unsatisfied with his job

Flaws: Disease, Shy. Bonds: Rich, Mentor, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his bastard sword, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a rose on it. His hair is cut close to his head. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: Caeldrim speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. He is clearly well-traveled and educated. He invites people to come help in his community garden.

History: His psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His psionic abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He was granted psionic powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out.

Ideals: Impeccable, Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Slave. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 10000 gp. Sardonyx (70 gp). Red garnet (60 gp). Alexandrite (1200 gp). Bloodstone (70 gp). Black pearl (1200 gp). Coral (60 gp). Alexandrite (1200 gp). Red-brown spinel (60 gp).

Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He keeps his brown hair in a pixie cut. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines blue.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: He was born into a rich family. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he is greedy

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Secretive. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 3000 gp. Aquamarine (800 gp). Coral (120 gp). Brown-green garnet (120 gp). Moonstone (80 gp). Moonstone (80 gp). Deep green spinel (120 gp). Azurite (6 gp). Black pearl (800 gp). Amethyst (120 gp). Hematite (6 gp).