Description: This western man wears a fancy black suit. His clothes are grease stained in places. With a patchy blonde beard and wild blonde hair. His violet eyes dart from person to person.

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. He has all his life been fascinated with singing.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. His homeland was ravaged by war and he spent much of his life rebuilding it. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west.

Ideals: Artistic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: PTSD. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 14000 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (500 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1000 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (1000 gp). A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (100 gp). Jeweled anklet (2000 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1000 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (900 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp). Jeweled gold crown (6000 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (900 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1000 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (500 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (900 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1000 gp). 1 Major magic item.

Description: The dark-skinned man stands 4'7" and wears baggy brown pantaloons and a green scarf. He has shaved his head bald. He has green eyes and a brown hat with a green feather.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. 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 in the north his family was never financially stable. He worked as a nervous Sage and found it very stressful. He struck the Sage job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: He feels threatened by others; and he is wracked by social anxiety

Ideals: Philantrophist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 3000 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (2200 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (200 gp). A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (70 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (200 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (100 gp). A small bag of saffron. (90 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (70 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1100 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (2300 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (3000 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). A pair of blacksmith’s puzzle; each has a pair of interlocked iron designs that users try to take apart and put back together (90 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears a brown vest and prefers blue and green shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. His red hair is greasy and uncared for. His amber eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: Nutae hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his music career. He is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: When he was but 6 years old his parents immigrated from the west. 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: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 2000 gp. Amber (140 gp). Jasper (20 gp). Smoky quartz (20 gp). Iolite (20 gp). Alexandrite (1600 gp).

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he is typically in his Gardener uniform. His brown hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: Quiet and reserved he prefers to listen than to talk. He will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. He is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Elves.

History: He was born at the edge of vast desert. Before the accident, he was one of the most outspoken anti-Elven activists. He was mortally wounded, saved by a kind and fast-acting Elven doctor. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Gardener responsibilities is difficult; and marry his brother to traveling adventurers

Flaws: Shy, Racist. Bonds: Job, Nature, Family. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 5000 sp.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He very much looks the part of a Layabout. His brown hair is thinning but still full. He has violet eyes and a white hat with a black feather.

Personality: He trusts no one. He is not readily capable for forgiveness and his ire never leaves him. He is obsessed with his god.

History: Erevan was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his father was employed at, doing general labor. Like his father and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Layabout. He's also a talented Bather, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Religious, Poor. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 600 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.