Description: He is an average looking eastern male in his early mid-life. He wears a blue cloak and cross-gartered white stockings. His black hair is braided into rings. His ears are large.

Personality: This man loves writing and to teach people writing more than just about anything. He enjoys reading and quiet.

History: He comes from a rich eastern family. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature shortbow.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break; and obtaining odd cultural elven artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Artistic, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 1400 gp. Sard (40 gp). Sardonyx (40 gp). Coral (60 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A middle-aged man, he wears a pastel tunic with white highlights, and long green pants that bunch up around his shoes, and is pretty ugly. His brown hair is still thick. His green eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: Berrian lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He has been saving his money to try and buy his sister's freedom.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Barber

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 7000 sp. Black star sapphire (600 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: An older man who wears yellow robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally he wears more armor. He prefers to carry a ceremonial dagger, but if one is not available he will default to his scythe, he is not a threatening figure. He keeps his long black hair kept up in a rat tail. His eyes are blue and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He acts crazy and hedonistic. He has all his life been fascinated with poetry.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. A freak accident while working with his Doctor mother left him crippled. He has never given up on his poetry dream.

Motivation: He is greedy; and he has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Hedonist, Disease. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 160 pp. Tourmaline (130 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1000 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. He is physically well-built. He has styled his chestnut hair well, parting it to the left. He is baby faced.

Personality: He cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with his opinion, he thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, he can get violently argumentative. He is cautious and jumpy. He reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: Nim was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his father was employed at, doing general labor. Being born in the west, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the west for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way east. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: He is wracked by social anxiety; and marry his brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Family. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 200 pp. White pearl (110 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: An older man who wears professional attire, he is not a threatening figure. His long auburn hair reaches down to his waist. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

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 loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his writing with anyone who is interested.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. Being born in the east, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the east for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way south. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Military. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: Just what you see.