Description: A 4'10" southern man, he wears tattered old clothes. His blonde hair is thinning but still full. His eyes are amber and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He likes to brag about his accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. He has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. Ostracized due to the psionic powers of his oldest brother, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Elves became a terror of the countryside. He is searching for what he claims is his rightful reward.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk.

Ideals: Passionate, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 700 gp.

Description: This northern man wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with deerstalker hat. His clothes are grease stained in places. His blonde hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His brown eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the north. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Weaver hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. He left for the north, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Pacifist, Opinionated. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 1900 gp. Chalcedony (80 gp). Amber (80 gp). Black star sapphire (1200 gp).

Description: An older man who tends to wear a blue poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt, he is not a threatening figure. His tied-back hair is white. His eyes are gray and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He is a bit of a macho man and will challenge people to random contests of strength and skill, and invite them to random hunting and fishing trip.

History: Efferil hails from a village terrorized by orcs. He has had some formal singing training, and achieved minor success. He guards a vault combo very seriously as well as the key needed to open it.

Motivation: A deep hatred of orcs; and revenge

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Nature, Enemies. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 200 pp. Blue-white diamond (5000 gp). Eye agate (10 gp). Aquamarine (400 gp). Obsidian (10 gp). Rhodochrosite (10 gp). Malachite (10 gp). Violet garnet (400 gp). Jet (150 gp). Rock crystal (30 gp). Banded agate (10 gp). Rose (30 gp).

Description: This tall, slender man wears light armors faded through time and improper care. He keeps his long black hair kept up in a rat tail. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. He is cautious and jumpy. He reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: A powerful slaver made him what he is. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a daughter. Recently a tribe of gnolls attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Mindartis fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Mentor, In love. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 150 pp. A delicate silver chain set with a tourmaline (30 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (2100 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is dressed in earthy colors with a pastel and black handkerchief worn on his right side. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his glaive, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a cross on it. His brown hair is thinning but still full. His ears are large.

Personality: Halimath hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his writing career. He passes on several rewards to people in need. He makes a point to leave places better than he found them.

History: A child with a great deal of writing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Artistic, Philantrophist, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 400 gp. Rhodochrosite (13 gp). Star ruby (1300 gp). Citrine (20 gp). Bloodstone (20 gp). Iolite (20 gp). Smoky quartz (20 gp). 1 Minor magic item.