Description: He is an average looking northern male in his early mid-life. He wears long strands of sapphire and short white dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. His hair is brown and curly. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He is harsh and unforgiving.

History: When he was but 8 years old his parents immigrated from the north. A gifted student he started as a Shoemaker, but he got bored and became a Architect. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Architect responsibilities is difficult; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 600 gp.

Description: He wears professional attire. His skin is fair and his fingers are delicate and long. His hair is always cut to a buzz. His fierce violet eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks his mind. Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly.

History: The child of a Marshal, who enjoyed hunting, Aust was taken on many hunting expeditions. Over the years he perfected his riding and shooting skills. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world; and revenge

Flaws: Shy, Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Enemies. Occupation: Server

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 1000 gp. Blue quartz (11 gp). Jet (80 gp).

Description: This slender man stands about 5'5". He wears baggy grey pantaloons and a black scarf. He has dyed his greying golden hair a little too much giving a sharp golden color. His brown eyes peer out from beneath his broad grey hat.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes gnolls are coming to abduct people. He is cautious and jumpy. He reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: Arannis hails from a village terrorized by gnolls. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature nunchaku.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north; and obtaining odd cultural elven artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Enemies, Adventurer. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking southern young adult. He is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His tied-back hair is golden. His eyes are gray and beady.

Personality: He likes to make people angry or surprised. He takes great pride in his work and is very well organized. His planner is full of calendar events.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Crown-heir arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Crown-heir for hire.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and sabotage a competitor

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Slave, Job, Rich. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 110 pp. Chrysoberyl (60 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a green coat. His hair, while still mostly silver, has prominent grey streaks. His fierce violet eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. He does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of illithids may trigger it at times.

History: When he was but 6 years old his parents immigrated from the west. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Elves in the west were limited. Being a Ploughman 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: Regain custody of his son; and doesn't want to be a ploughman and was forced into it by his family

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Immigrant, Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 1000 gp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (400 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). A pair of blacksmith’s puzzle; each has a pair of interlocked iron designs that users try to take apart and put back together (50 gp). Jeweled gold crown (7000 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (700 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (800 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (60 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (700 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (1000 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (700 gp). 1 Minor magic item.