Description: This man is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of his veins is visible when he is not flexing. His shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for him due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. He wears his chestnut hair down. His brown unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He has always had a great fascination with Elven culture. 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: Born to a pair of adventurers, Riardon grew up listening to his father's many stories. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. In his journeys he found a malevolent artifact. He wishes to return this artifact and its corrupting influence back to where it came.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and to reunite with his old friends

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Disease, Racist. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 2000 sp. Citrine (60 gp). Rhodochrosite (11 gp). Peridot (60 gp). Moss agate (11 gp). Aquamarine (1300 gp). Blue quartz (11 gp). Rhodochrosite (11 gp).

Description: He wears dark leathers with embroidery. He has a long brown beard with little hanging trinkets. His brown eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. He always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Barber business.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Mindartis was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and retire the richest man in the south

Ideals: Persistence, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Addict, Insomniac. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 20000 cp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (900 gp). A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (110 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (110 gp).

Description: This southern man wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt. His clothes are grease stained in places. His hair is short and black. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines blue.

Personality: He acts crazy and hedonistic. Any perceived weakness will be pressed and exploited. He is seen as merciless and passionate.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. Ahvain was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Ahvain decided he wanted neither the life of his father nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. After a long history of fighting, Ahvain and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Seeks redemption; and he feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help

Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 200 pp. Deep blue spinel (600 gp). Banded agate (4 gp).

Description: He is a paragon of his species. He is larger and stronger than most Elves. His skin is dark but he possesses many violet ritualistic tattoos. He prefers to wear brown pants and tee shirts. His hair, while still mostly blonde, has prominent grey streaks. His eyes are violet and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is a man who does what he needs to. He will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. He has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: His father raised him in a mountain cabin. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Caeldrim 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 Caeldrim. He has worked as a Jeweler like his mother before him.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Elven artifacts is his passion; and wants to open a new tavern

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Criminal record, Nature, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 2000 gp. Bloodstone (60 gp). Emerald (1000 gp). Jade (90 gp). Malachite (10 gp). Jasper (60 gp).

Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic right leg, he is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. Sporting a chestnut mohawk and bushy mustache this man's hair draws a lot of attention. His brown eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: Arannis is a sociable creature first and foremost. He loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. He can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. Arannis enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: A powerful necromancer made him what he is. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. Recently a tribe of dire rats attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Arannis fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Fighting, Extrovert, Logical. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 1200 gp. 1 Minor magic item.