Description: This western man likes to wear ponchos typically of a light yellow in addition to tight pants. His clothes are grease stained in places. He keeps his long blonde hair kept up in a rat tail. His hazel eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from him. He is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Elf in existence. 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, Aelar is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: He was born in the west, but his parents moved at a very young age to the south. He has had some formal music training, and achieved minor success. He eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent mother; and marry his sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Justice, Artistic. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Guardian, Family. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 1100 gp. Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1800 gp). A detailed rose, with petals and thorns, constructed of silver and electrum (70 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (700 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp).

Description: He wears red painted combat armor at almost all times. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. His auburn hair has been sun bleached extensively. He has several tiny jet earrings on each ear.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. 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: The child of northern immigrants he idolized his mother. A few years later when the south was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he is greedy

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 3000 gp. Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (500 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (50 gp). Solid gold idol (600 gp).

Description: His left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing blue cape and mantle trimmed with soft yellow waves gently in the breeze. His red hair is lengthy. He is baby faced.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. He is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. His first spouse was a Bricklayer, they had one daughter, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. After a long history of fighting, Efferil and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and marry his sister to traveling adventurers

Flaws: Antagonistic, Lazy. Bonds: Rich, Slave, Family. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 500 gp. Deep green spinel (130 gp). Carnelian (20 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a husky man, who wears a black collared shirt and grey pants. He accessorizes with a white scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. With bright auburn hair and a scraggly beard. His ears are large.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for him. He lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: He was born at the edge of vast island. 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. 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 has money and likes to spend it; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Gifted, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Nature. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 1000 gp. Obsidian (10 gp). Pink pearl (70 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (500 gp).

Description: This man stands a little under 5'5" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He wears well tailored suits and hats with beautiful decoration. He is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. His red hair is knotted and matted. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. He is fiercely devoted to his father, and views his father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-brother.

History: His arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. After coming to the age of reason, Nim took it upon himself to study the arcane arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his sons to still be retired.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well.

Ideals: Joker, Gifted. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 6000 gp. Blue quartz (15 gp). Malachite (15 gp). Aquamarine (200 gp). Golden yellow topaz (200 gp). Chalcedony (30 gp). Blue quartz (15 gp). Amethyst (100 gp). Aquamarine (200 gp). Sard (30 gp). Jacinth (3000 gp). Deep blue spinel (200 gp). Deep blue spinel (200 gp). Amethyst (100 gp). White pearl (100 gp). Zircon (30 gp). Aquamarine (200 gp). Smoky quartz (30 gp). Blue star sapphire (1100 gp). Aquamarine (200 gp). Black pearl (200 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (1100 gp). Smoky quartz (30 gp).