Description: This exceptionally lanky man dresses like a well dressed Doctor does. His golden hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He is a hateful person. He taunts others and blames them for his problems. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage son.

History: A powerful necromancer made him what he is. 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 Doctor. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: To be a Shepherd again; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Attractive, Family, Mentor. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 180 pp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (700 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1600 gp). A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (30 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: With black face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he wears bulky blue painted plate armor. His red hair has been sun bleached extensively. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. 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: Paelias was born in the south. At a young age he loved to build and create. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and retire the richest man in the south

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Persistence. Flaws: Shy, Insane, Antagonistic. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 400 gp. A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (70 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (1000 gp). Solid gold idol (900 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is in excellent shape and wears blue leather gloves, a blue jacket, and tight pants. His hair is black and very short. His eyes are a pleasant gray.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. As he has aged he has sought to do reparations for his actions as a youth. He is also making sure that his compatriots who never received punishment for their crimes are brought to justice.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Gardener arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Like his mother and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Gardener. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; 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: Athletic, Justice. Bonds: Job, Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 90000 cp. White pearl (50 gp). Banded agate (8 gp). Hematite (8 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This late middle aged man is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time and is in decent physical shape. He has wavy red hair. His eyes are likewise violet.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. He loves teas. He is very sensitive about his face. To blow off anger he lifts weights and to control his otherwise explosive temper he works out a lot.

History: Azaki was born with his father's beautiful face. 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. Being a Shoemaker kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: He is content; and a rival would like him out of the picture

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Shy, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 1300 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he is typically in his Masseuse uniform. His long blonde hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He believes mankind has become decadent and spoiled by the march of civilization and an end should come to life as we know it. Energy wise he seems alert and responsive.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. At a young age he wooed the heart of his future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. In the meantime he has taken over work as a Masseuse and occasionally as a mercenary.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends.

Ideals: Professionalism. Bonds: Job, Nature, In love, Adventurer. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 2000 sp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.