Description: This exceptionally lanky man has the majority of his body covered in plate. His blonde hair has been sun bleached extensively. His eyes are likewise violet. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He is a sleazy, sleazy guy. He has no qualms about using his powers of suggestion to get people to do what he wants. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: Gifted from a young age, Heian studied abroad. His family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The father sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. He saw this and took pride in his father's willingness to do anything to win. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature bastard sword.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends.

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 500 gp. Banded agate (4 gp).

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He dresses in green turtlenecks beneath a brown coat with black slacks. His hair is always cut to a buzz. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He is irritable and easily angered. He is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use his stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. Aelar enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. A gifted student he started as a Brewer, but he got bored and became a Spice Merchant. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic, Hedonist. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 40 pp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This late middle aged man wears a black deerstalker hat and black clothes and is in decent physical shape. His hair is short and silver. His violet unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is a Fletcher first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He lacks moral complications. He does what he is told to by employers but not much else. He spends his money on whatever he fancies at the time.

History: Erdan hails from a village terrorized by dire rats. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He has achieved small success as a Fletcher.

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

Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Job, Enemies, Attractive. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 400 gp. Black pearl (500 gp). Jasper (70 gp). Alexandrite (500 gp). Blue quartz (9 gp).

Description: This tall, slender man wears a tan costume with the symbols of the four houses of cards on his torso. His golden hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His violet eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Vanuath isn't afraid of most anything. He has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Elven unity. He does not mind isolation but does not hate company and attempts to receive them as best as possible.

History: Vanuath lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. His father was very strict, and drilled into him lessons on being the perfect gentleman. He has never given up on his painting dream.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Impeccable, Extrovert, Artistic. Bonds: Family, Job. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: Violet garnet (1000 gp). Rose (50 gp). Fire opal (800 gp). Jasper (50 gp). Chalcedony (50 gp). Moonstone (50 gp). Deep blue spinel (1000 gp).

Description: A man of a pale complexion, he does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. His brown hair is knotted and matted. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady green eyes.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes goblins are coming to abduct people. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: Born in the west to a Carter, Naeris learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. He sought a place where he would be rewarded solely on the merits of his skills. This search led him directly into Carter work with an outfit from a few towns over. Carter work suited him well, and with each successful project, he earned more gold and more respect from his peers. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: A deep hatred of goblins; and to be a bricklayer again

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Job. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 3000 sp. Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1600 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.