Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He wears a brown armored body suit, with a simple black line shooting up and back down. His hair is black and very short. He has several tiny topaz earrings on each ear.

Personality: Naal hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his music career. The war was a terrible time for him, and Naal does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. 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: Artistic. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Rich, Military. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 900 gp. Old masterpiece painting (1700 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This eastern man is abnormally tall. He typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep brown leather and dull red iron scale mail. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. His hair is short and red. His violet unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: Born to a Locksmith, his father struggled to pay the bills. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Elves in the east were limited. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Disease, Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Poor. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This fat eastern man has a bulbous nose and wears a black vest and prefers green and violet shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His golden hair is thinning but still full. His eyes are likewise blue. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Knight but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Erevan was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. 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 is greedy.

Ideals: Justice, Pacifist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Mentor, Rich. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: A plain young-adult man, he wears silk and lounges about seductively. He has a very tight haircut. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. He pushes his goals aggressively. He is also a coward if confronted.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. A gifted student he started as a Mason, but he got bored and became a Sailor. He tends to his Sailor job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: To be a Mason again.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Fearful, Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Pronounces O like U

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

Description: This eastern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He wears baggy red pantaloons and a tan scarf. His blonde hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. He has a dull look in his gray eyes.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: Born to a Cartwright, his father struggled to pay the bills. Cursed with unlife at a very young age, Suhnae has worked very hard to control his curse. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Persistence, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: Bloodstone (30 gp). Golden yellow topaz (800 gp). Eye agate (11 gp). Iolite (30 gp). Peridot (30 gp).