Description: He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. He is portly but not overly obese. His blonde hair is smooth and relatively long. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He will do just about anything if he becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this he is easily convinced.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. Quarion abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. In his journeys he found a malevolent artifact. He wishes to return this artifact and its corrupting influence back to where it came.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and he has passion for adventuring and risk

Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Guardian, Has a crush, Adventurer. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 400 gp. Coral (70 gp). Carnelian (20 gp). Rhodochrosite (10 gp). Silver pearl (70 gp). Sard (20 gp).

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He tends to wear a grey poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. His moppish silver hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He is quite rude, and likes to deride his opponents skill and shout insults at them. Paelias enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Paelias lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Being born in the west, 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 west 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: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Hedonist. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 800 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes.. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his crossbow, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a card on it. His hair is red and curly. He is baby faced.

Personality: He is shy and timid. He has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. 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: The child of a Bather, who enjoyed hunting, Peren was taken on many hunting expeditions. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Elves in the east were limited. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to dire rats demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it; and someone believes him a fraud

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Nature, Immigrant. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 900 gp.

Description: He is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes.. He has relatively light skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. His hair is golden, silky, and of moderate length. His eyes are likewise hazel. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of goblins once and for all.

History: Caeldrim hails from a village terrorized by goblins. Ostracized due to the divine powers of his oldest brother, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Elves became a terror of the countryside. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: Revenge; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Gifted, Logical. Flaws: Sensitive. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 800 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This younger middle-aged man wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized white coat, and a wedding ring on his left hand. His long chestnut hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. He has amber eyes.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. He is an amazing painter.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a son. Some 9 years later his spouse died after the birth of his son. Heartbroken, Nutae never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his son whom he trained as his father had trained him before.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: In love, Slave. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 70 pp. Malachite (11 gp). Aquamarine (1200 gp). Alexandrite (1200 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1200 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.