Description: His skin is bronze and flawless. He likes to wear white tank tops with brown pants. He is an epitome of beauty. His hair is golden and curly. He has several tiny topaz earrings on each ear.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 900 gp.

Description: This late middle aged man is wearing a long, tan, dusty cloak and is in decent physical shape. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. He has gleaming, smiling amber eyes.

Personality: He is a Locksmith first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: His mother raised him in a mountain cabin. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He tends to his Locksmith job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and to find somewhere to settle down

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Job, Nature, Mentor. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 700 gp.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He is well dressed, constantly wearing a tan suit, grey shirt, and yellow tie. His auburn hair is thinning but still full. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: Thamior hails from a village terrorized by orcs. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Engraver.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and balancing his hectic life and new engraver responsibilities is difficult

Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive, Job, Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 1400 gp.

Description: A middle-aged man, he wears baggy black pantaloons and a pastel scarf, and is pretty ugly. With a patchy white beard and wild white hair. His amber unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. He is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with his big mouthed big gutted partner. His partner is his best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. He is obsessed with his god.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. Caeldrim 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. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature ceremonial dagger.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends.

Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Adventurer, Religious, Poor. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 4000 gp. Blue quartz (14 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1000 gp). Obsidian (14 gp). Silver pearl (110 gp). Violet garnet (1000 gp). Bloodstone (30 gp). Hematite (14 gp). Chalcedony (30 gp). Chrysoprase (30 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He wears dark leathers with embroidery. His auburn hair, when down, is lengthy. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating he would invite many more into his home than his spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. His philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: Gifted from a young age, Aelar studied abroad. His parents enrolled him in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that he could practice his martial talents. He used his abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Optimist, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 500 gp.