Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He wears bulky grey painted plate armor. His red hair is lengthy. He is baby faced.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: Born in the south to a Map Maker, Mindartis learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of philosophers.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Map Maker responsibilities is difficult; and sabotage a competitor

Flaws: Ugly, Secretive. Bonds: Rich, Job, Religious. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 4000 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a chocolate of some kind. He wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition, marred by chocolates. His brown hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Theren 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 Theren. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Persistence, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 600 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He appears as an extremely gaunt Elf, and stands approximately 4'8". He likes to wear white tank tops with black pants, and his gloved hand is found clutching a shield. His hair is always cut to a buzz. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: Born to a Baker, his father struggled to pay the bills. Through the years after Thamior was born, his father became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the west. Thamior's father didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. Recently a tribe of gnolls attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Thamior fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic, Shy. Bonds: Poor, Slave. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 1100 gp. Rock crystal (20 gp). Jade (130 gp). Moonstone (20 gp). Banded agate (10 gp). Rhodochrosite (10 gp). Deep blue spinel (200 gp). White pearl (130 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is an average looking eastern male in his early mid-life. He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His brown hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His brown eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He considers himself the perfect gentleman. He makes a point to always show proper etiquette and frequently critiques the etiquette of others. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. Varis 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. Varis 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. He has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Ideals: Impeccable. Bonds: Religious, Criminal record, Slave. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 500 gp. Eye agate (8 gp).

Description: He wears an entirely white suit with black socks and a vest with buckled shoes. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly hand crossbows and spears. He has shaved his head bald. He is baby faced.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. He takes great joy in being the best Sage in town.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Sage arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. When the war came and ruined his parents he was left adrift. He was a hard man then and has only learned to fight more as time goes on. 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 money and likes to spend it; and a rival would like him out of the picture

Flaws: Shy, PTSD. Bonds: Criminal record, Job, Rich. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 400 gp. Eye agate (5 gp). Onyx (20 gp). Star ruby (1300 gp). Blue quartz (5 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.