Description: This man is tall and muscular. He dresses in brown turtlenecks beneath a yellow coat with black slacks. His hair is cut close to his head. His gray unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help his friends. He considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. He takes great pride in his work and is very well organized. His planner is full of calendar events.

History: Heian lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. His first spouse was a Doctor, they had one son, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Ideals: Athletic, Optimist. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 200 pp. Rhodochrosite (8 gp). Blue quartz (8 gp). Rock crystal (40 gp). Blue star sapphire (1100 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates his frame. He wears a colorful flower in his chestnut hair. His hazel eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help his friends. He considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: He was born in the west, but his parents moved at a very young age to the south. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west.

Ideals: Optimist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 2000 gp. Banded agate (12 gp). Deep blue spinel (200 gp). Chrysoprase (50 gp). Sard (50 gp). Rose (50 gp). Rhodochrosite (12 gp). Hematite (12 gp). Peridot (50 gp). Brown-green garnet (90 gp). Deep green spinel (90 gp). Rhodochrosite (12 gp). Golden pearl (90 gp). Star ruby (600 gp). Blue star sapphire (600 gp). Lapis lazuli (12 gp). Alexandrite (200 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He wears suspenders and black workpants. His shirt is brown, and he wears a heavy black leather apron most of the time. His golden hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. His amber unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He acts crazy and hedonistic. He is a great chef.

History: He was born in the south, but his parents moved at a very young age to the east. In his youth he was part of a gang. He got caught, but did not rat out his comrades and served his time in prison. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help; and he has decided he is irredeemable

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Disease, Hedonist. Bonds: Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 1600 gp. Iolite (60 gp). Alexandrite (1000 gp). Deep blue spinel (1000 gp). Golden pearl (90 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a green costume with the symbols of his god on his torso. He carries with him a set of morningstars on his belt, each one with a aquamarine on the hilt. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy auburn hair. This hazel eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He trusts no one. He is not readily capable for forgiveness and his ire never leaves him. 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: He was born at the edge of vast mountains. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. Recently a tribe of giants attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Erdan fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Marry his brother to traveling adventurers; and to reunite with his absent father

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, Nature. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 12000 sp. Black pearl (400 gp). Jade (120 gp). Aquamarine (400 gp). Emerald (1500 gp). Alexandrite (400 gp). Black pearl (400 gp).

Description: He is lean but muscular and wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. His white hair is still thick. He has several tiny emerald earrings on each ear.

Personality: Quiet and reserved he prefers to listen than to talk. He will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. He is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: He was born in a small plains village. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Logical, Optimist. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Nature. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 200 pp. Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (500 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). Jeweled gold crown (5000 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (200 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1600 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (600 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (200 gp).