Description: A stocky lighter skinned man, he is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright tan and black, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. His moppish golden hair is in a traditional bowl cut. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help his friends. He considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. He disdains his fellow easterners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: Born in the east to a Bricklayer, Paelias learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. 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: To reunite with his absent mother; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Job, Family. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 100 pp. Cloth of gold vestments (70 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (70 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (70 gp).

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. His hair is blonde and curly. His eyes are likewise blue. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends he is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy himself. He is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: His necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His parents enrolled him in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that he could practice his necromantic talents. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero.

Ideals: Joker, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 1100 gp.

Description: He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized white coat. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his longsword, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a skull on it. He wears his auburn hair down. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are violet.

Personality: He is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. He is an amazing painter.

History: Aust was born with his father's beautiful face. His parents enrolled him in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that he could practice his divine talents. Some 7 years later his spouse died after the birth of his son. Heartbroken, Aust never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his son whom he trained as his father had trained him before.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, In love. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 9000 sp.

Description: This northern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He wears a yellow tunic with brown highlights, and long blue pants that bunch up around his shoes. His auburn hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines green.

Personality: He cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with his opinion, he thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, he can get violently argumentative. He does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for him. He lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Shipwright arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Elves in the north were limited. He spent several years traveling with his friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and he desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Adventurer, Military. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 20000 cp. Tourmaline (100 gp).

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. His white hair is unkempt and raggedy. His eyes are a pleasant violet.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with poetry. He constantly tries to fill his life with poetry. He disdains his fellow easterners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: Born in the east his family was never financially stable. His parents divorced when he was young, and his father gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his father, who blamed him for driving them apart. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and marry his brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Poor. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.