Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He wears skinny pants and wears a brown and red robe with the hood down. His golden hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. His eyes are blue and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Paelias hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his music career. He also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered music. He left for the north, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Military, Immigrant. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 600 gp.

Description: This fat northern man has a bulbous nose and wears a black cloak and cross-gartered blue stockings. His skin is also unnaturally pale. He is bald on top and has large black tufts of hair around his ears. His blue eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He goes out his way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one he won't accept into his heart. He claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day he will do what he thinks is right.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. In his youth he was part of a gang. He got caught, but did not rat out his comrades and served his time in prison. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help; and he is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Optimist, Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1400 gp).

Description: This man typically wears tan cloth garments or leather armor, and sports empty pouches on his belt. He has brown hair. This blue eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He is fixated on the number 18. He counts his steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. He seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. He has a small toy that he constantly fidgets with.

History: He comes from a rich western family. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and an old rival family wants him found

Flaws: Insane, Addict. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 270 pp.

Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic right leg, he usually wears his green robe and has his bow always slung over his shoulder. His silver hair is braided into rings. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He has always had a great fascination with Elven culture. He is fiercely devoted to his mother, and views his mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-sister.

History: Vanuath was raised in a hard working conservative environment. A serious injury left his mother unemployed and in need of constant care. His family became saddled with debt trying to care for his infirm mother. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Shipwright.

Motivation: Marry his sister to traveling adventurers; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Family, Job, Debt. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 400 gp. Coral (140 gp). Amethyst (140 gp). Sard (70 gp). Deep green spinel (140 gp).

Description: He wears long strands of sapphire and short blue dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy golden hair. His eyes are brown and beady.

Personality: Prone to second guessing himself, he comes off as nervous. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: He was born in the north, but his parents moved at a very young age to the south. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.