Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Shepherd. His head has been shaved. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He will rave to anyone who will listen. He constantly seizes attention wherever he goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. He likes to think of himself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. His first spouse was a Gardener, they had one son, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion.

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Military, Family. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 900 gp. Black pearl (1600 gp). Violet garnet (1600 gp). Peridot (40 gp). Violet garnet (1600 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a physically imposing light-skinned man. He prefers to wear flannel. His hair is short and brown. His eyes are brown and catlike.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: He comes from a rich northern family. 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 Scribe. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Architect they were divorced and he won custody of their son. He worked as a Scribe, and he later adopted a second son.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Bonds: Job, Criminal record, Rich, Family, Religious. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 3000 gp. Violet garnet (1600 gp). Rhodochrosite (8 gp). Black pearl (1600 gp). Hematite (8 gp). Golden pearl (130 gp). Coral (130 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1600 gp). Eye agate (8 gp). Deep green spinel (130 gp). Violet garnet (1600 gp).

Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His long silver hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His eyes are likewise violet.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Naal is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: His divine talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He was taken from his home at a very young age. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Disciplined, Justice, Gifted. Bonds: Slave. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 1200 gp.

Description: He is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. He has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. His hair is short and blonde. His hazel eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He is very protective of his business, his home, and his spouse. He is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: Born to a Shoemaker, his father struggled to pay the bills. His first spouse was a Shoemaker, they had one daughter, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. He used his abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help.

Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Job, Criminal record, Poor, Family. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 600 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears dark leathers with embroidery. His white hair is smooth and relatively long. His ears are large.

Personality: He loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. He is kind towards other men and children and will generally offer men help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to him.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Aelar grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Aelar. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable; and seeks redemption

Ideals: Opinionated, Philantrophist, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item.