Description: This southern man is abnormally tall. He wears a simple tan robe with blue stripes complete with hood. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. His chestnut hair is still thick. His half smiles and blue eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. 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: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of specialists.

Motivation: Elven compassion.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive, Mentor. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 2000 gp.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. His top hat is riddled with cuts and holes. He has a dull look in his brown eyes.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He is very protective of his business, his home, and his spouse. He is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: He was born at the edge of vast mountains. His necromantic abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He was granted necromantic powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help; and a rival would like him out of the picture

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record, Nature. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 11000 sp. Citrine (50 gp). Tourmaline (40 gp). Rock crystal (50 gp).

Description: He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. He has a very tight haircut. His eyes are a pleasant hazel.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk he knows how to make people feel guilty. He has a habit of throwing himself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: Trained by his mother for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father 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 has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and to prove his worth to the world

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Depressed, Impulsive. Bonds: Military, Attractive. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: Black pearl (1200 gp). Emerald (1500 gp). Black star sapphire (1500 gp).

Description: With brown face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a brown coat. His auburn hair is unkempt and raggedy. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: Quiet and reserved he prefers to listen than to talk. He will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. 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: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. His mother was a soldier and died while he was still young. Thervan was left his mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Poor, Military. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 70 pp. Alexandrite (700 gp). Blue sapphire (600 gp). Chalcedony (40 gp). Golden pearl (120 gp). Pink diamond (3000 gp). Sardonyx (40 gp). Emerald (600 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A thin man, he clearly needs to put on some weight, but he still has a lot of muscle. He wears bulky blue painted plate armor. He is bald on top and has large auburn tufts of hair around his ears. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: Efferil hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his writing career. To his fellows he is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. He has had some formal writing training, and achieved minor success. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to goblins demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Many goblins want him driven away.

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Poor. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 1100 gp. Sardonyx (20 gp). Deep blue spinel (200 gp). Jade (140 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.