Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. He has no hair. He has gleaming, smiling amber eyes.

Personality: He runs his personal life as if detached from it. He organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits he will get from it. He spends most of his days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There he gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Shepherd arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Like his father and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Shepherd. 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 wants to meet his childhood hero; and further expansion of business

Flaws: Ugly, Selfish. Bonds: Adventurer, Rich, Job. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: Smoky quartz (30 gp). Chalcedony (30 gp). Blue quartz (16 gp). Fire opal (1600 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (1600 gp). Amber (40 gp).

Description: He very much looks the part of a Guard. He wears a feathered hat to cover his moderate length white hair. His ears are large.

Personality: He goes out his way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one he won't accept into his heart. Soveliss enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Guard. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Guard for the past few years.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Job, Religious. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: Hematite (9 gp). Amethyst (100 gp). Alexandrite (1200 gp). Eye agate (9 gp). Blue star sapphire (500 gp). Deep green spinel (100 gp). Rhodochrosite (9 gp). Azurite (9 gp). Lapis lazuli (9 gp). Black opal (500 gp).

Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He wears black painted combat armor at almost all times. His hair is short and auburn. His violet unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Deceptive and manipulative this northern guy figured out how to best use his charms to convince people to do what he wants. He is cautious and jumpy. He reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He feels threatened by others; and he is wracked by social anxiety

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Disease, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. His auburn hair has been sun bleached extensively. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. The war was a terrible time for him, and Theren does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: Gifted from a young age, Theren studied abroad. Cursed with lycanthropy at a very young age, Theren has worked very hard to control his curse. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

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

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed, Disease. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 6000 gp. A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (180 gp). Solid gold idol (1100 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (1100 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (180 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (3000 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (2900 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1300 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (3000 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). Jeweled anklet (4000 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears a fancy violet suit. He has shaved his head bald. His brown eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

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's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Addict, Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Nature. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 3000 sp.