Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he wears a black cloak and cross-gartered white stockings. His golden hair is thinning but still full. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his gray eyes.

Personality: He exudes charisma. He is a tour de force of persuasion. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage daughter.

History: A child with a great deal of poetry talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. His mother disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his mother, he was betrayed dozens of times. When he grew older, he became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. He began work as a mercenary for hire. He would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Artistic, Logical. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 500 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears tattered old clothes. His chestnut hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a broad hat. His eyes are blue and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. He is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Elves.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Elves in the east were limited. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day.

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Criminal record, Immigrant. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 9000 sp. Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (900 gp).

Description: This dark-skinned male is wearing a long, tan, dusty cloak. He is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. His head has been shaved. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: Here is a man who knows he is the smartest in the room. He talks down to others constantly. He will do just about anything if he becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this he is easily convinced.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. His father was very strict, and drilled into him lessons on being the perfect gentleman. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: He is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and a rival would like him out of the picture

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Has a crush, Slave, Family, Criminal record. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 1300 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. He is physically well-built. His black hair is lengthy. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He is a jovial happy person, but he is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. He is cautious and jumpy. He reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: Born in the south to a Architect, Rael learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. Rael liked to wander the woods near his home when he was young, something he still likes to do at least once a week. He never liked modest clothing or shoes, so he would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and he developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Architect responsibilities is difficult; and he is wracked by social anxiety

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Nature. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 100 pp. Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1600 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (6000 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (2800 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He usually wears his grey robe and has his sword always slung over his shoulder, and carries swords. His brown hair is heavily combed to the left. He is baby faced.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: He was raised in a island tribe. Being born in the north, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the north for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way west. He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Addict, Shy. Bonds: Nature, Family. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 3000 gp. Chrysoprase (70 gp). Peridot (70 gp). Coral (160 gp). Rhodochrosite (12 gp). Rhodochrosite (12 gp). Moss agate (12 gp). White opal (1500 gp). Lapis lazuli (12 gp). Obsidian (12 gp). Emerald (1500 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.