Description: He wears tattered old clothes. He carries a battered bow and tarnished monstrous two handed axe as well. His golden hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. His brown eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. Despite his manner, he is extremely passionate and proud of his job, and he prides himself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: Gifted from a young age, Ahvain studied abroad. 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 Animal Trainer. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Animal Trainer responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears silk and lounges about seductively. He is portly but not overly obese. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His amber eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage daughter.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. Like his mother and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Marshal. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Marshal for hire.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found.

Ideals: Professionalism. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Slave, Job. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 500 gp. Azurite (15 gp). Eye agate (15 gp). Violet garnet (500 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This western man typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep black leather and dull white iron scale mail. His clothes are grease stained in places. He wears his auburn hair up. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep green.

Personality: He cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with his opinion, he thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, he can get violently argumentative. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his mother.

History: Gifted from a young age, Tharivol studied abroad. He always admired martial-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He left for the west, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west; and he feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help

Ideals: Opinionated, Entrepeneur, Gifted. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 500 pp. Rock crystal (60 gp). Coral (60 gp). Coral (60 gp). Freshwater pearl (11 gp). Citrine (60 gp).

Description: He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment, and carries sickles. His hair is golden, silky, and of moderate length. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He has always had a great fascination with Elven culture. Energy wise he seems alert and responsive.

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; and a strong sense of loyalty to elven people

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Fighting, Professionalism. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: Embroidered and bejeweled glove (1000 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (170 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1200 gp).

Description: He wears a brown cloak and cross-gartered white stockings. His skin is fair and his fingers are delicate and long. His moppish brown hair is in a traditional bowl cut. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. He is an amazing painter.

History: Born in the north his family was never financially stable. He was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and obtaining odd cultural elven artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 22000 sp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (600 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (5000 gp). Solid gold idol (600 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (5000 gp). 1 Minor magic item.