Description: This man is tall and muscular. He wears a fancy blue suit. His hair is brown and very short. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is a jovial happy person, but he is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. Flattery will make him almost putty in your hands.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Ideals: Athletic, Optimist. Flaws: Insane, Selfish. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 2000 gp. Zircon (30 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1300 gp). Hematite (6 gp). Onyx (30 gp). Deep blue spinel (1300 gp). Black star sapphire (1500 gp). Alexandrite (1300 gp). Aquamarine (1300 gp). Aquamarine (1300 gp). Malachite (6 gp). Pink pearl (110 gp).

Description: He is lean but muscular and sports blue clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. His brown hair is singed and shortened. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. His job bores him to no end. He has decided to make it more interesting.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Cursed with vampirism at a very young age, Rael has worked very hard to control his curse. He has dedicated himself to building a better village for his children.

Motivation: He possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 60000 cp. Brown-green garnet (80 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (16 gp). Violet garnet (1400 gp). Blue star sapphire (400 gp). Red garnet (80 gp). Azurite (16 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing grey cape and mantle trimmed with soft pastel waves gently in the breeze. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly daggers and glaives. He is bald on top and has large brown tufts of hair around his ears. His brown eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Interpreter born in the past three hundred years. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: He was born into a rich family. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture; and he feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help

Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 100 pp. Jeweled electrum ring (2000 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1100 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (700 gp). A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (80 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (700 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (50 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1100 gp).

Description: He is an average looking southern male in his early mid-life. He wears a fine chain shirt which he covers with yellow colored cloaks and clothing. His hair is cut close to his head. His green unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He lacks moral complications. He does what he is told to by employers but not much else. He spends his money on whatever he fancies at the time.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. 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 has achieved small success as a Seamstress.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and expand his business

Flaws: Disease, Sensitive, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 1900 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He appears as an extremely gaunt Elf, and stands approximately 5'1". He wears tattered old clothes, and his gloved hand is found clutching a nunchaku. His blonde hair is braided into rings. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: Aerdeth hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his writing career. 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: He was born on a small isolated farm. Being born in the west, 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 west 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 north. 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: To unite with his brother; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Nature, Rich. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 12000 sp. Solid gold idol (200 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (200 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp).