Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he tends to wear a black poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. He has wavy auburn hair. His amber eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: A deeply religious man he believes everything happens for a reason. He will do just about anything if he becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this he is easily convinced.

History: He comes from a rich northern family. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and further expansion of business

Bonds: Religious, Has a crush, Rich, Job, In love. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 700 pp. Embroidered and bejeweled glove (1000 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (60 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1700 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (600 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1700 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1700 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (6000 gp).

Description: This exceptionally lanky man wears dark leathers with embroidery. With bright black hair and a scraggly beard. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. A friendly and beautiful Elf, he is rarely seen without a few beauties around his arms. Though a playboy in all rights, he is no lame duck.

History: A child with a great deal of painting talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. He has had some formal painting training, and achieved minor success. He used his abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact; and he is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: Zircon (60 gp). Deep blue spinel (1000 gp). Black star sapphire (1300 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This southern man wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. His clothes are grease stained in places. His red hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. His violet eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks his mind. A true patriot, Theren would do anything for his country. He is fiercely protective of his fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. He was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Flaws: Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Military, Adventurer. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 600 pp. Aquamarine (1500 gp). Banded agate (9 gp). Eye agate (9 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1500 gp). Sardonyx (50 gp). Eye agate (9 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This fat eastern man has a bulbous nose and tends to wear a black poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. His skin is also unnaturally pale. He has shaved his head bald. His eyes are likewise amber.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. 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 was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He feels threatened by others.

Ideals: Joker, Gifted, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 300 pp. Blue sapphire (1200 gp). Star ruby (1200 gp). Alexandrite (800 gp). Jade (150 gp). Alexandrite (800 gp). Red spinel (150 gp). Golden yellow topaz (800 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He is well dressed, constantly wearing a brown suit, black shirt, and red tie. He carries a battered monstrous two handed axe and tarnished rapier as well. He has a white handlebar mustache and slicked back white hair. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He refers to his adoptive mother 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: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when orcs swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. He has been saving his money to try and buy his sister's freedom.

Motivation: A deep hatred of orcs; and to unite with his sister

Ideals: Fighting, Persistence. Bonds: Family, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 500 gp. 1 Minor magic item.