Description: Runty and weak-looking, he is renowned for his bright pastel suits and hats. His blonde hair is smooth and relatively long. His eyes are likewise gray. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: His necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. 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 now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the south; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Ideals: Persistence, Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Mentor. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 1500 gp. Solid gold idol (1200 gp). Solid gold idol (1200 gp). A pair of blacksmith’s puzzle; each has a pair of interlocked iron designs that users try to take apart and put back together (10 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing yellow cape and mantle trimmed with soft black waves gently in the breeze. His brown hair is matted, messy, and big. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. Flattery will make him almost putty in your hands.

History: He comes from a rich eastern family. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and money/treasure

Ideals: Persistence, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Selfish. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This tall, slender man is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His white hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic man, Arannis's first love is himself. His second love is also himself. Arannis enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Merchant arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. His father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear; and wants to raise his children well

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Hedonist, Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 300 gp. Golden yellow topaz (300 gp).

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he prefers to wear tan pants and tee shirts. His auburn hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: He got into the Dilettante business at a young age. Lucan 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 now owns his own business.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and to reunite with his old friends

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 2000 gp. Coral (90 gp). Sard (80 gp). Black pearl (300 gp). Jet (90 gp). Amber (90 gp). Deep green spinel (90 gp).

Description: He stands about 4'10" and is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. His right leg appears badly burned and disfigured. With bright golden hair and a scraggly beard. He has green eyes and a brown hat with a pastel feather.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day he will do what he thinks is right.

History: He was born at the edge of vast plains. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Elves in the west were limited. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Persistence, Justice. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Immigrant. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 600 pp. Lapis lazuli (16 gp). Tourmaline (40 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (16 gp). Obsidian (16 gp). Bloodstone (30 gp). Azurite (16 gp). Golden pearl (40 gp). Sard (30 gp). Azurite (16 gp). Banded agate (16 gp). Freshwater pearl (16 gp). 1 Medium magic item.