Description: He tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. He wears a colorful flower in his auburn hair. He has several tiny ruby earrings on each ear.

Personality: A deeply religious man he believes everything happens for a reason. He receives visions of the future at random moments

History: A child with a great deal of poetry talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. His mother disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his mother, he was betrayed dozens of times. 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: An old rival family wants him found.

Ideals: Gifted, Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Religious, Family. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 16000 sp. Chrysoprase (50 gp).

Description: This man is very fat, and is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. His chestnut hair is lengthy. He has gleaming, smiling green eyes.

Personality: Here is a man who knows he is the smartest in the room. He talks down to others constantly. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. Halimath was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Halimath decided he wanted neither the life of his father nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. He used his abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day; and he has decided he is irredeemable

Ideals: Fighting, Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 700 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This eastern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. 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 has chestnut hair. He has a tattooed 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. His job bores him to no end. He has decided to make it more interesting.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Bookbinder arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He is searching for what he claims is his rightful reward.

Motivation: He is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and obtaining odd cultural elven artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 700 gp. Star rose quartz (40 gp).

Description: This tall, slender man does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. His feathered hat is riddled with cuts and holes. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with poetry. He constantly tries to fill his life with poetry. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: A child with a great deal of poetry talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. He was taken from his home at a very young age. He now mingles about in high society.

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

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Secretive. Bonds: Slave, Rich. Occupation: Server

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 1400 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he wears a brown coat over a white low-cut shirt, and a broad hat upon his head. His brown hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. His eyes are likewise hazel. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks his mind. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of gnolls once and for all.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Eiravel liked to wander the woods near his home when he was young, something he still likes to do at least once a week. He never liked modest clothing or shoes, so he would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and he developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by gnolls, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Enemies, Nature. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 1100 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.