Description: This fat eastern man has a bulbous nose and wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His hair is short and white. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. He is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east.

Ideals: Logical, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Terse, Mundane. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 700 pp. Large well-done wool tapestry (500 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (500 gp). Jeweled anklet (4000 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (800 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (500 gp). A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (90 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with top hat. He has a long silver beard with little hanging trinkets. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: A deeply religious man he believes everything happens for a reason. He has a small toy that he constantly fidgets with.

History: He was born in the north, but his parents moved at a very young age to the west. 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 Animal Trainer. He left for the north, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions.

Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Religious, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 4000 gp. Red spinel (60 gp). Amethyst (60 gp). Red garnet (60 gp). Rock crystal (50 gp). Jade (60 gp). Iolite (50 gp). Freshwater pearl (4 gp). Azurite (4 gp). Freshwater pearl (4 gp). Violet garnet (1400 gp). Deep blue spinel (1400 gp).

Description: His left side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized red coat. He keeps his long auburn hair kept up in a rat tail. His eyes are amber.

Personality: He likes to make people angry or surprised. He cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 4000 sp.

Description: This southern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He wears a green cloak and cross-gartered grey stockings. He wears his auburn hair up. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are violet.

Personality: He is cool and collected. He likes to make quips and puns whenever he does anything. He also makes a point to compliment his superiors and flatter them. He always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Bookbinder business.

History: Erdan was born in the south. At a young age he loved to build and create. His mother was a soldier and died while he was still young. Erdan was left his mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. He is searching for what he claims is his rightful reward.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark.

Ideals: Disciplined, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Military, Adventurer. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 4000 gp. Rhodochrosite (10 gp). Blue quartz (10 gp). Sard (80 gp). Alexandrite (1300 gp). Jet (40 gp). Red-brown spinel (40 gp). Star rose quartz (80 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (10 gp). Peridot (80 gp). Lapis lazuli (10 gp). Black pearl (1300 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what he was had he not made sure his armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit he wears a black collared shirt and violet pants. He accessorizes with a tan scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. His moppish silver hair is in a traditional bowl cut. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He is a man who does what he needs to. He will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. He is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. After coming to the age of reason, Gennal took it upon himself to study the druidic arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He was granted druidic powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture; and 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

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Military. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1800 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). Jeweled gold crown (5000 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (2300 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (5000 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1800 gp).