Description: An older man who prefers to wear grey clothing when he does not wear armor, he is not a threatening figure. His hair is brown and curly. This gray eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. 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: Born in the north to a Painter, Quarion learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. He has had some formal writing training, and achieved minor success. He tends to his Painter job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Philantrophist, Artistic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 280 pp. Chalcedony (30 gp). Black opal (700 gp). Freshwater pearl (5 gp).

Description: He wears a pastel coat over a brown low-cut shirt, and a feathered hat upon his head, and carries hammers. His white hair is knotted and matted. He has violet eyes.

Personality: He is happy with his job as a Ruler. He turns his eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: Theriatis was born the youngest of three triplets. He has had some formal writing training, and achieved minor success. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Ruler and was forced into it by his family.

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. His black hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His brown eyes peer out from beneath his small brown hat.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic man, Laucian's first love is himself. His second love is also himself. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his father.

History: His necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. In his 19th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his father impaled in their home, and his mother beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west; and nothing but the best is good enough for him

Ideals: Athletic, Impeccable, Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Fearful. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, he likes to wear green tank tops with brown pants. He wears his white hair up in a very large beehive style do. His brown eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: Laucian was born into a poor family. Growing up, he dreamt of becoming a Sorcerer, to bring honor to his family’s name. When he came of age, he applied for a position with his town's local guard, looking to work his way up via merit and eventually become a Sorcerer in service of a powerful lord somewhere. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Elves in the east were limited. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature mace.

Motivation: Meet up once more with his childhood friend.

Ideals: Passionate. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer, Immigrant. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 800 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic left leg, he wears professional attire. His long chestnut hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His hazel eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his poetry with anyone who is interested.

History: A child with a great deal of poetry talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 500 gp. Brown-green garnet (100 gp). Jet (100 gp). Smoky quartz (30 gp). Citrine (30 gp). Iolite (30 gp). Pink pearl (100 gp). Jasper (30 gp). Freshwater pearl (8 gp). Brown-green garnet (100 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.