Description: He wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. He is portly but not overly obese. He has a blonde handlebar mustache and slicked back blonde hair. His green eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He is shy and timid. He has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Herbalist arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Aelar grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Aelar. Being a Herbalist kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and a rival would like him out of the picture

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Shy, Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. He has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. His hair is always cut to a buzz. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines blue.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. More though he will beg to come along on any journeys. He will attempt to stowaway on any ship he can in the hopes that it will get him further away.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Tharivol grew up listening to his father's many stories. He worked as a nervous Detective and found it very stressful. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and he desires power and/or immortality

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Job, Slave, Adventurer. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 13000 sp. Citrine (60 gp). Violet garnet (600 gp). Azurite (5 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (5 gp). Jet (150 gp). Lapis lazuli (5 gp).

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy golden stubble. He wears red robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally he wears more armor. He prefers to carry a pickaxe, but if one is not available he will default to his hammer. He has a hunchback. He has moderate length golden hair. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are gray.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. The war was a terrible time for him, and Lamlis does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. His father was a soldier and died while he was still young. Lamlis was left his father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and he feels kind of lost in life

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Depressed. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 320 pp. Sard (50 gp). Jade (130 gp). Coral (130 gp). Sard (50 gp). Banded agate (9 gp). Deep blue spinel (1000 gp). Banded agate (9 gp). Smoky quartz (50 gp).

Description: Runty and weak-looking, he wears dark leathers with embroidery. His blonde hair has been sun bleached extensively. His blue eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. He has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: Efferil hails from a village terrorized by orcs. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Architect hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Architect.

Motivation: Revenge.

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 1500 gp.

Description: 5'1" and muscular, this northern man wears yellow painted combat armor at almost all times. His hair is short and auburn. His fierce hazel eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He fancies himself a trickster and likes to rely on his wits to carry the day. He cares for his older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. He works hard and plays hard.

History: Paelias was born the youngest of three triplets. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his sons to still be retired.

Motivation: Marry his brother to traveling adventurers; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Athletic, Logical. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 1500 gp. Pink pearl (70 gp). Freshwater pearl (11 gp). Hematite (11 gp). Lapis lazuli (11 gp). Moss agate (11 gp). Bloodstone (20 gp). Rhodochrosite (11 gp). White opal (1200 gp).