Description: He wears professional attire. He carries a battered halberd and tarnished ceremonial dagger as well. His white hair is cut short. He has gleaming, smiling green eyes.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He is kind towards other men and children and will generally offer men help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to him.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north.

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist, Philantrophist, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 4000 gp. Aquamarine (900 gp). Obsidian (16 gp). Banded agate (16 gp). Azurite (16 gp). Sardonyx (30 gp). Violet garnet (900 gp). Moss agate (16 gp). Deep blue spinel (900 gp).

Description: He prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. He carries his fan with him everywhere and carries himself as the perfect gentleman. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his lance, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a clover on it. His auburn hair is long and unkept. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He runs his personal life as if detached from it. He organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits he will get from it. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing poetry.

History: He comes from a rich northern family. He has had some formal poetry training, and achieved minor success. He has never given up on his poetry dream.

Motivation: He is greedy; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Selfish. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 4000 sp. Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). A delicate brass dragon egg (20 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1800 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (1000 gp). A delicate brass dragon egg (20 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (700 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a physically imposing dark-skinned man. He wears a pastel vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His brown leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his pastel boots flare out at the collars. His hair is always cut to a buzz. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Mayor.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and expand his business

Bonds: Attractive, Job, Military, Immigrant, Mentor. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (300 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (700 gp).

Description: He wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a green coat, and he perpetually has his warhammer ready. His hair is chestnut and very short. His brown eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He is quite rude, and likes to deride his opponents skill and shout insults at them. The war was a terrible time for him, and Varis does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: He feels kind of lost in life; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic, Depressed, Mundane. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 4000 gp. Citrine (40 gp). Jade (90 gp). Violet garnet (200 gp). Obsidian (8 gp). Red spinel (90 gp). Aquamarine (200 gp). Sardonyx (40 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This western man is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. His clothes are grease stained in places. His golden hair is smooth and relatively long. His violet eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He hates giants. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: The child of western immigrants he idolized his father. He always admired martial-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by giants. Efferil was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the giants.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and he wants revenge against giants

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 2400 gp. 1 Minor magic item.