Description: He stands about 4'10" and dresses well, wearing violet shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time. His right leg appears badly burned and disfigured. His hair is black and curly. He has several tiny topaz earrings on each ear.

Personality: He believes mankind has become decadent and spoiled by the march of civilization and an end should come to life as we know it. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: His father raised him in a mountain cabin. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. 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 uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs.

Ideals: Opinionated. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Nature. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 1600 gp.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He prefers to wear blue pants and tee shirts. His hair is golden and curly. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines violet.

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. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: The child of western immigrants he idolized his father. His father was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. 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: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and money/treasure

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Immigrant, Religious. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 200 gp. Chalcedony (70 gp). Pink pearl (40 gp).

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what he was had he not made sure his armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit he wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with feathered hat. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy blonde hair. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. Berrian is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his sisters into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: Berrian was born in the east. At a young age he loved to build and create. Being born in the east, 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 east 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. 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: To reunite with his absent mother; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Insane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 2900 gp. Deep blue spinel (1000 gp). Chrysoberyl (140 gp).

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty grey coat over it. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. After coming to the age of reason, Fivin took it upon himself to study the arcane arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Slave, Family. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 800 gp. Lapis lazuli (4 gp).

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He is wearing a long, green, dusty cloak. He wears his chestnut hair up in a very large beehive style do. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He has always had a great fascination with Elven culture. He claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day he will do what he thinks is right.

History: Gifted from a young age, Erdan studied abroad. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He was granted necromantic powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: To clean up the streets; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Justice, Gifted. Flaws: Insomniac, Racist, Ugly. Bonds: Guardian. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 3000 gp. Silver comb with moonstones (1000 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (2000 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (1000 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.