Description: He is a mite stocky and is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing black cape and mantle trimmed with soft violet waves gently in the breeze. His silver hair has been sun bleached extensively. His blue eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. When triggered he is a bloodthirsty maniac, stopping at nothing and killing everything for almost an hour.

History: Born in the west to a Roofer, Aelar learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. In his youth he was part of a gang. He got caught, but did not rat out his comrades and served his time in prison. He became a Roofer soon after.

Motivation: He is greedy.

Flaws: Sensitive, Insane. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. He has no hair. His blue eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

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 receives visions of the future at random moments

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when dire rats swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. His parents were killed by dire rats in a raid when he was still a young child. The dire rats captured him, and made him a slave and general play-thing. He was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to his deformed appearance. He was granted arcane powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it; and a deep hatred of dire rats

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Selfish. Bonds: Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. He wears his white hair up. His amber eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: His arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Cartwright. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Cartwright for hire.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Cartwright responsibilities is difficult; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Opinionated, Gifted. Bonds: Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: With green face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he wears dark leathers with embroidery. With bright red hair and a scraggly beard. His hazel eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. Like his father and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Fortune-teller. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Fortune-teller responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Job, Nature. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 5000 gp. Gold music box (2000 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (180 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (5000 gp). Solid gold idol (900 gp). Gold and ruby ring (6000 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (180 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp).

Description: An older man who is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured, he is not a threatening figure. He keeps his brown hair in a pixie cut. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: He is a hateful person. He taunts others and blames them for his problems. He cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. Being born in the west, 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 west 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 north. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and revenge

Ideals: Philantrophist, Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, Enemies. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 7000 gp. Blue quartz (11 gp). Moonstone (60 gp). Violet garnet (1500 gp). Moss agate (11 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (11 gp). Aquamarine (1500 gp). Jasper (60 gp). Jade (110 gp). White opal (400 gp).