Description: His skin is bronze and flawless. He is wearing a long, white cloak. He is an epitome of beauty. His hair is cut close to his head. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Berrian grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Berrian. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: He wants to get laid; and wants a kiss

Ideals: Passionate. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Criminal record, Has a crush. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 400 gp. Chrysoprase (20 gp). Onyx (20 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: An older man who is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured, he is not a threatening figure. His white hair is singed and shortened. He has gleaming, smiling gray eyes.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. His job bores him to no end. He has decided to make it more interesting.

History: He was raised by priests from a young age. Uthemar was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Uthemar decided he wanted neither the life of his mother nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break; and he is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Criminal record, Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 800 gp. Chrysoberyl (40 gp). Golden yellow topaz (200 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (1600 gp). Moonstone (40 gp). Alexandrite (200 gp). Hematite (6 gp). Deep green spinel (40 gp).

Description: He wears tattered old clothes. He has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. His hair is always cut to a buzz. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his writing with anyone who is interested.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the east. Ostracized due to the necromantic powers of his oldest brother, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Elves became a terror of the countryside. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and doesn't want to be a soapmaker and was forced into it by his family

Ideals: Gifted, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Poor. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 900 pp. Moss agate (16 gp). Rhodochrosite (16 gp). Obsidian (16 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1500 gp). Chalcedony (40 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly tridents and whips. His hair, while still mostly chestnut, has prominent grey streaks. His blue eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He likes to make people angry or surprised. 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, Naill is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: Born to a Mercenary, his father struggled to pay the bills. His parents divorced when he was young, and his father gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his father, who blamed him for driving them apart. Being a Unemployed kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day; and he possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Criminal record, Poor. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 110000 cp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He appears as an extremely gaunt Elf, and stands approximately 5'4". He likes to wear blue tank tops with green pants, and his gloved hand is found clutching a quarterstaff. He has a auburn handlebar mustache and slicked back auburn hair. He has several tiny topaz earrings on each ear.

Personality: Soveliss hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his writing career. His philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: His necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. After coming to the age of reason, Soveliss took it upon himself to study the necromantic arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. Now he works as a writing tutor during his time off.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Artistic, Optimist, Gifted, Logical. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 190 pp. Lapis lazuli (7 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1300 gp).