Description: This tall, slender man wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt. His white hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He hates dire rats. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his dancing with anyone who is interested.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. He has had some formal dancing training, and achieved minor success. 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 has decided he is irredeemable; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Enemies, Family, Military, Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 2000 gp. An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (120 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (400 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1700 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (900 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (1700 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp). Solid gold idol (500 gp). A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (100 gp).

Description: This man is dressed in a clean brown cloak covering his clean studded leather. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized ruby on his right hand. His hair is black and curly. His hazel eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. He would rather hide behind his crafts than deal with other people.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. His father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He is greedy; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Addict, Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 360 pp. Black pearl (700 gp). Smoky quartz (70 gp). Hematite (6 gp). Lapis lazuli (6 gp). Moss agate (6 gp). Aquamarine (700 gp). Black pearl (700 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears many layers of old clothing at all times. His skin is fair and his fingers are delicate and long. His long chestnut hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His eyes are a pleasant violet.

Personality: Here is a man who knows he is the smartest in the room. He talks down to others constantly. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his father.

History: Tharivol was born into a poor family. Growing up, he dreamt of becoming a Sorcerer, to bring honor to his family’s name. When he came of age, he applied for a position with his town's local guard, looking to work his way up via merit and eventually become a Sorcerer in service of a powerful lord somewhere. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. When he grew older, he became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. He began work as a mercenary for hire. He would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Elven artifacts is his passion; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Impeccable, Entrepeneur, Athletic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 1500 gp. Red-brown spinel (100 gp). White pearl (100 gp). Iolite (80 gp). Jasper (80 gp). Lapis lazuli (8 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: An older man who wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized yellow coat, he is not a threatening figure. He keeps his long auburn hair kept up in a rat tail. His fierce green eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He refers to his adoptive mother for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: When he was but 3 years old his parents immigrated from the east. In his 20th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: To unite with his brother; and marry his brother to traveling adventurers

Flaws: Sensitive, Fearful. Bonds: Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 1300 gp.

Description: A stocky lighter skinned man, he dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. His auburn hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His eyes are likewise amber. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with writing. He constantly tries to fill his life with writing. He uses divination through singing.

History: When he was but 6 years old his parents immigrated from the south. His mother took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. He has never given up on his writing dream.

Motivation: A strong sense of loyalty to Elven people.

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Nature. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 1000 gp. Solid gold idol (200 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (300 gp). Gold music box (2000 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (300 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (80 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (200 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (200 gp).