Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His head has been shaved. This gray eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. He is kind towards other men and children and will generally offer men help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to him.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east; and many drow want him driven away

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Terse. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This tall, slender man is dressed in earthy colors with a green and pastel handkerchief worn on his left side. He has a very tight haircut. 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. He plays an instrument quite well.

History: He was born in a small island village. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered dancing. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and a rival would like him out of the picture

Ideals: Joker, Artistic. Bonds: Nature, Criminal record, Enemies. Occupation: Banker

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 3000 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (900 gp). Jeweled anklet (4000 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (2300 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (150 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He wears light armors faded through time and improper care. His red hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: When he was but 4 years old his parents immigrated from the south. His father was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. He found several beat up suits of armor and, cannibalizing spare parts, he put together a working one.

Motivation: He uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs.

Ideals: Gifted, Persistence. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 6000 sp.

Description: He is dressed in a clean red cloak covering his clean studded leather, and he perpetually has his sai ready. His auburn hair is braided into rings. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Elven artifacts is his passion; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 700 gp.

Description: He is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. He carries with him a set of warhammers on his belt, each one with a amethyst on the hilt. His hair is always cut to a buzz. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He is a sleazy, sleazy guy. He has no qualms about using his powers of suggestion to get people to do what he wants. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Hadarai is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: His necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and he feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help

Ideals: Fighting, Justice, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Religious. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 3000 sp. Lapis lazuli (6 gp). Bloodstone (70 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.