Description: He is scrawny and has patchy blonde stubble. He wears red trousers with blue and white striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. He has a hunchback. His blonde hair is knotted and matted. His eyes are gray and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. He cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one.

History: Gifted from a young age, Aramil studied abroad. His mother disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his mother, he was betrayed dozens of times. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 2200 gp.

Description: He prefers to wear flannel. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly lances and shortspears. His red hair is singed and shortened. He has brown eyes.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Varis embodies much of what other species detest in the Elves. He is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. He became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions.

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Criminal record, Poor. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 90 pp.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. His hair is long and black with streaks of white, and is pulled back with small red clips. His beard is white, braided, and well cared for. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: Meet up once more with his childhood friend; and obtaining odd cultural elven artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Fearful, Addict. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He wears silk and lounges about seductively. He carries a battered shortbow and tarnished falchion as well. With bright golden hair and a scraggly beard. His gray eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He plays an instrument quite well.

History: Born in the north to a Crown-heir, Gennal learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered painting. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 9 years.

Motivation: Expand his business; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 3200 gp. Black pearl (200 gp). Aquamarine (200 gp).

Description: A plain young-adult man, he wears a brown Stetson hat and brown clothes. His golden hair is unkempt and raggedy. His blue eyes peer out from beneath his Stetson brown hat.

Personality: He acts crazy and hedonistic. He loves teas. He is very sensitive about his face. To blow off anger he lifts weights and to control his otherwise explosive temper he works out a lot.

History: He was born in a small desert village. In his youth he was part of a gang. He got caught, but did not rat out his comrades and served his time in prison. He has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Poor, Nature, Criminal record. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 500 gp.