Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. His hair is long and chestnut with streaks of silver, and is pulled back with small white clips. His beard is silver, braided, and well cared for. His eyes are a pleasant violet.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. He is fiercely devoted to his father, and views his father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-sister.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. His necromantic abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of freemasons.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well; and he is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Family, Slave, Criminal record. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 1700 gp.

Description: This southern man is abnormally tall. He usually wears his green robe and has his kukri always slung over his shoulder. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. His golden hair is thinning but still full. He is baby faced.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. Any perceived weakness will be pressed and exploited. He is seen as merciless and passionate.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. His parents enrolled him in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that he could practice his martial talents. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture.

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted. Bonds: Immigrant, Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing brown cape and mantle trimmed with soft green waves gently in the breeze. He is bald on top and has large auburn tufts of hair around his ears. His eyes are likewise hazel. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. He cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist he will grow angry at them.

History: Heir to a fortune, his parents put a great deal of effort into curing his disease. His parents divorced when he was young, and his father gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his father, who blamed him for driving them apart. After a long history of fighting, Erdan and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He is greedy; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 900 gp. Golden pearl (90 gp). Deep blue spinel (300 gp). Silver pearl (90 gp). White pearl (90 gp).

Description: The man speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. He seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if he got out from a pool a few moments ago. He wears a fancy brown suit. He has a long brown beard with little hanging trinkets. His fierce hazel eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

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. 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 was forced to fight in gladiatorial arenas alongside his partner. They became the best of friends and one day they managed to break out together and then went their separate ways.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out.

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted, Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Slave. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 1400 gp.

Description: He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He is physically well-built. He has a chestnut handlebar mustache and slicked back chestnut hair. He is baby faced.

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 moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Elves in the west were limited. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Selfish, Hedonist. Bonds: Immigrant, Slave. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 1400 gp.