Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he is well dressed, constantly wearing a tan suit, black shirt, and blue tie. He has a long blonde beard with little hanging trinkets. His skin is flawless and his amber eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: He runs his personal life as if detached from it. He organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits he will get from it. He will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: A child with a great deal of writing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. When the war came and ruined his parents he was left adrift. He was a hard man then and has only learned to fight more as time goes on. 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 doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes; and to prove his worth to the world

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Selfish, Impulsive, PTSD. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Courier

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 4000 gp. A small bag of saffron. (40 gp). A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (40 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (4000 gp). A delicate brass dragon egg (40 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (4000 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (70 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (800 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This northern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He is typically in his Dilettante uniform. His black hair is still thick. His violet eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He believes mankind has become decadent and spoiled by the march of civilization and an end should come to life as we know it. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: Aelar was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Aelar was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Aelar decided he wanted neither the life of his mother nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. He's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day; and balancing his hectic life and new dilettante responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Job, Nature, Criminal record. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 1200 gp. Aquamarine (400 gp). Brown-green garnet (150 gp). Moss agate (4 gp). Emerald (600 gp). Hematite (4 gp). Freshwater pearl (4 gp). Peridot (20 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. With a patchy chestnut beard and wild chestnut hair. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

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 afraid of women and trembles around them

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the south. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother 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 hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep.

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Insomniac, Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Poor. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 1700 gp.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing pastel cape and mantle trimmed with soft tan waves gently in the breeze. His blonde hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: He speaks before he thinks and is too direct. He is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: He was born in the east, but his parents moved at a very young age to the west. Uthemar was born on a far eastern desert where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Mortician. He left for the east, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Religious. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Booming voice

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

Description: This man dresses in green turtlenecks beneath a red coat with blue slacks. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized opal on his left hand. His hair is red and very short. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. He takes great pride in his work and is very well organized. His planner is full of calendar events.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. A gifted student he started as a Map Maker, but he got bored and became a Body Guard. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Joker, Logical. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 800 gp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (700 gp). 1 Minor magic item.