Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He wears professional attire. His white hair is thinning but still full. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: This man loves painting and to teach people painting more than just about anything. Heian enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Heian was born into a poor family. Growing up, he dreamt of becoming a Sorcerer, to bring honor to his family’s name. When he came of age, he applied for a position with his town's local guard, looking to work his way up via merit and eventually become a Sorcerer in service of a powerful lord somewhere. He found a children's book about a Elf Sorcerer who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. He modeled his life after the story, seeing himself destined a hero. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: Rhodochrosite (8 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is lean but muscular and is well dressed, constantly wearing a black suit, green shirt, and yellow tie. His hair is chestnut and curly. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He speaks before he thinks and is too direct. Raer is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his brothers into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. A few years later when the south was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He left for the west, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world.

Flaws: Impulsive, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 900 gp. Jet (40 gp). Black star sapphire (400 gp). Rhodochrosite (10 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. He carries his fan with him everywhere and carries himself as the perfect gentleman. He sports a long silver beard, and similarly colored long hair. He has a dull look in his green eyes.

Personality: Naal is a sociable creature first and foremost. He loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. He can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: Heir to a fortune, his parents put a great deal of effort into curing his disease. His arcane abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Extrovert, Professionalism, Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Old thin voice

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

Description: This man is very fat, and is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. His hair is silver and very short. He wears a mask on his face.

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 can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. After coming to the age of reason, Arannis took it upon himself to study the arcane arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He was granted arcane powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the south; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Persistence, Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Slave. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 1200 pp. An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (110 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (700 gp).

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He wears a brown armored body suit, with a simple grey line shooting up and back down. His auburn hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. His blue eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Rael isn't afraid of most anything. He has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Elven unity. He will often invite strangers home for dinner and talk their ears off. He cares deeply for his spouse and does his best to make sure his guests look presentable.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Rael grew up listening to his father's many stories. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. Some 5 years later his spouse died after the birth of his daughter. Heartbroken, Rael never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his daughter whom he trained as his father had trained him before.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for him.

Ideals: Athletic, Impeccable, Optimist. Bonds: In love. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 50000 cp. Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (2100 gp). Old masterpiece painting (2100 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (600 gp).