Description: His skin is bronze and flawless. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He is an epitome of beauty. His chestnut hair and beard is wavy and long. His blue eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: Here is a man who knows he is the smartest in the room. He talks down to others constantly. He pushes his goals aggressively. He is also a coward if confronted.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Tharivol was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: He is wracked by social anxiety; and nothing but the best is good enough for him

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Impeccable. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 800 gp. Golden yellow topaz (300 gp). Alexandrite (300 gp). Aquamarine (300 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a paragon of his species. He is larger and stronger than most Elves. His skin is light but he possesses many brown ritualistic tattoos. He wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. He wears his blonde hair up. His amber eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. The war was a terrible time for him, and Ivellios does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: When he was but 3 years old his parents immigrated from the west. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He has worked as a Herbalist like his mother before him.

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

Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Poor, Job, Military, Immigrant, Slave. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: Amber (130 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a mite stocky and is wearing a long, red, dusty cloak. His hair is chestnut and very short. He has amber eyes and a red hat with a tan feather.

Personality: He is envious of other's things. He hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that he so desires. He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Scribe arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He found a children's book about a Elf Sorcerer who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. He modeled his life after the story, seeing himself destined a hero. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and he is greedy

Flaws: Greedy. Bonds: Immigrant, Rich, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: He wears baggy green pantaloons and a black scarf. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly shields and scimitars. His golden hair is smooth and relatively long. He has gray eyes.

Personality: He will rave to anyone who will listen. He plays an instrument quite well.

History: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Himo 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 Himo. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Insane, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 900 gp. Tiger eye turquoise (14 gp). Aquamarine (700 gp). Malachite (14 gp). Hematite (14 gp).

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears tattered old clothes. His hair is short and chestnut. His gray eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He is witty, but his monotone delivery comes off as unnerving He refers to his adoptive father for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: Born in the west his family was never financially stable. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a son. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To unite with his sister; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Family, In love. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 1000 gp. Alexandrite (700 gp). Rhodochrosite (15 gp). Silver pearl (100 gp). Alexandrite (700 gp). Banded agate (15 gp). Deep green spinel (100 gp). White pearl (100 gp). Bloodstone (40 gp). Rose (40 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.