Description: This exceptionally lanky man is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing brown cape and mantle trimmed with soft pastel waves gently in the breeze. He has done his best to style his black hair to look like a famous performer. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady violet eyes.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. He also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: A child with a great deal of painting talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. His mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. 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: Disciplined, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 400 gp. Malachite (16 gp). Iolite (30 gp). Hematite (16 gp). Chrysoprase (30 gp). Fire opal (1500 gp).

Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He typically wears brown cloth garments or leather armor. He wears a deerstalker hat to hide his balding. His eyes are likewise blue. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. His father was a soldier and died while he was still young. Theren was left his father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and he's looking for his big break

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Military. Occupation: Baker

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 1500 gp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (800 gp).

Description: He is an average looking northern male in his early mid-life. He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. He wears his silver hair up in a very large beehive style do. His half smiles and hazel eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Efferil isn't afraid of most anything. He has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Elven unity. He is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Being born in the north, 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 north 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 east. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and doesn't want to be a weaver and was forced into it by his family

Ideals: Impeccable. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Rich, Family. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: Deep blue spinel (1000 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his shortspear, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a skull on it. His blonde 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: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. He has a habit of throwing himself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: Vanuath hails from a village terrorized by gnolls. He was an adventurer many years ago and he formed a blood bond with his Elven companion (his 'brother'). He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and many gnolls want him driven away

Ideals: Disciplined, Logical. Flaws: Addict, Impulsive. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 4000 gp. Aquamarine (700 gp). Black pearl (700 gp). Star ruby (1100 gp). Deep green spinel (90 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is an average looking southern male in his early mid-life. He is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. His blonde hair is smooth and relatively long. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, he has a hard time making friends. To his fellows he is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. His first spouse was a Bounty Hunter, they had one daughter, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Rich, Family, Job. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 7000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.