Description: He is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. He has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. He wears a feathered hat to hide his balding. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He is very protective of his business, his home, and his spouse. He is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. His first spouse was a Engraver, they had one daughter, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. Being a Slave Trader 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: He desires power and/or immortality; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Justice. Bonds: Criminal record, Military, Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 12000 sp. Citrine (80 gp). Alexandrite (200 gp). Hematite (14 gp). Malachite (14 gp). Aquamarine (200 gp). Red spinel (150 gp). Star rose quartz (80 gp). Zircon (80 gp).

Description: A middle-aged man, he is wearing a tight black one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape, and is pretty ugly. He is bald on top and has large white tufts of hair around his ears. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He has always had a great fascination with Elven culture. He loves being with his children and actually smiles when they are around. He would do anything for them. He dislikes his ex a great deal.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. He was an apprentice working in his father's forge. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and expand his business

Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Family, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 800 gp. Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (900 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a mite stocky and is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. His auburn hair is braided into rings. He has a tattooed face.

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. Hadarai enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Hadarai was raised in a hard working conservative environment. A gifted student he started as a Herbalist, but he got bored and became a Armorer. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and a rival would like him out of the picture

Ideals: Fighting, Justice. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 600 gp.

Description: 4'7" and muscular, this northern man wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. He has dyed his greying blonde hair a little too much giving a sharp blonde color. He has gray eyes and a brown hat with a pastel feather.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. He is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: When he was but 6 years old his parents immigrated from the north. Cursed with lycanthropy at a very young age, Efferil has worked very hard to control his curse. He was granted psionic powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Athletic, Passionate, Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 1000 gp. Fire opal (1400 gp).

Description: He is lean but muscular and is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing grey cape and mantle trimmed with soft green waves gently in the breeze. He keeps his black hair in a pixie cut. His skin is flawless and his hazel eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. He is harsh and unforgiving.

History: He was born in the south, but his parents moved at a very young age to the east. Vanuath was born on a far southern island where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Masseuse. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to dire rats demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Enemies, Immigrant. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 4000 gp.