Description: He wears a violet vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His black leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his violet boots flare out at the collars. He is portly but not overly obese. His chestnut hair is lengthy. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: This man loves music and to teach people music more than just about anything. He is fiercely devoted to his father, and views his father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-brother.

History: Born to a Architect, his father struggled to pay the bills. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Merchant. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: Expand his business; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Poor, Job. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. With a patchy black beard and wild black hair. His eyes are amber.

Personality: He is curt in most of his responses. He prefers to keep his word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: Gifted from a young age, Nutae studied abroad. His childhood dream was to be a Animal Trainer, but he was a colossal failure. He tends to his Scribe job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: To be a Animal Trainer again; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 800 gp.

Description: A thin man, he clearly needs to put on some weight, but he still has a lot of muscle. He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing red cape and mantle trimmed with soft white waves gently in the breeze. His brown hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a deerstalker hat. His fierce amber eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation he is generally quite perceptive. He notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. The war was a terrible time for him, and Fivin does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. When Fivin reached his early adolescence his Elf mother passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, he decided to travel. His rounds led him into the Army with a few individuals who would become his life-long companions. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Insomniac, Depressed. Bonds: Rich, Military. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 1100 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (600 gp). Carved bone or ivory statuette (90 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This fat southern man has a bulbous nose and prefers to wear green pants and tee shirts. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His hair is white and curly. He has gleaming, smiling blue eyes.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. His brief stint in the army gave him the idea he was invincible and that he is the toughest man alive.

History: Korfel lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He has had some formal writing training, and achieved minor success. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his sons to still be retired.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent father; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Philantrophist, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Military, Family. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 500 gp. Banded agate (10 gp). Iolite (20 gp).

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. His tied-back hair is red. His skin is flawless and his violet eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: Suhnae hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his painting career. He is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: Gifted from a young age, Suhnae studied abroad. 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 east. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother; and regain custody of his son

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Family. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 800 pp. Old masterpiece painting (1500 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1500 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1400 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (40 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (1100 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (200 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.