Description: Standing 5'3", this man does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. He has a white handlebar mustache and slicked back white hair. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. He is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with his big mouthed big gutted partner. His partner is his best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. He disdains his fellow westerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: Gifted from a young age, Varis studied abroad. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 900 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates his frame. He is physically well-built. He wears his red hair down. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: Rael hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his singing career. 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 son.

History: He was raised in a island tribe. His mother took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: Many brigands want him driven away; and someone believes him a fraud

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Nature, Enemies. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 80 pp. Alexandrite (900 gp).

Description: He stands about 4'8" and is wearing a long, black, dusty cloak. His right hand appears badly burned and disfigured. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. He has blue eyes.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. Recently a tribe of dire rats attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Laucian fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Expand his business; and obtaining odd cultural elven artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Gifted, Fighting. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 150 pp.

Description: This man wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with deerstalker hat. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized emerald on his left hand. His hair is short and golden. His hazel eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. His job bores him to no end. He has decided to make it more interesting.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. At a young age both his parents were killed in an accident. His uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took him in and had him trained in basic self defense. He became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he's looking for his big break

Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Criminal record, Nature. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 1200 gp.

Description: His left side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with brown lining and desert motifs. His brown hair is long and unkept. He is baby faced.

Personality: He is irritable and easily angered. He is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use his stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends; and his religion dominates his actions

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Religious, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 30000 cp. Gold music box (2000 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). Solid gold idol (200 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.