Description: This man wears brown leather gloves, a brown jacket, and tight pants. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized amethyst on his right hand. His hair is blonde, silky, and of moderate length. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is a Guard first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: He is a Slaad in disguise. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Paelias 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 Paelias. 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: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark.

Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Job, Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 1000 gp. Sard (60 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.

Description: He is a pot bellied northern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears professional attire. His white hair is knotted and matted. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

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 a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. 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 routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Joker, Logical. Bonds: Attractive, Poor. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 1000 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: His right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes.. His brown hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a dagger scrunchie. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: Ahvain speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. He is clearly well-traveled and educated. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a daughter. He guards a vault combo very seriously as well as the key needed to open it.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and he doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, In love. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 1600 gp. Jeweled gold crown (7000 gp). An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (70 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (100 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1800 gp).

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He wears dark leathers with embroidery. He wears his red hair up. His green unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

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. Flattery will make him almost putty in your hands.

History: Adran was born in the east. At a young age he loved to build and create. Ostracized due to the divine 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. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Ideals: Justice, Persistence, Gifted. Flaws: Disease, Selfish. Occupation: Server

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 400 pp. Azurite (12 gp). Blue sapphire (700 gp). Aquamarine (1300 gp). Deep blue spinel (1300 gp). Golden pearl (110 gp). Hematite (12 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Standing 4'7", this man wears violet painted combat armor at almost all times. He wears a colorful flower in his white hair. He has gleaming, smiling gray eyes.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: Born in the north to a Sage, Arannis learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. Like his mother and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Sage. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Optimist, Justice. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 900 gp. Citrine (80 gp). Peridot (80 gp). Rich purple corundum (700 gp). Alexandrite (1600 gp).