Description: 5'5" and muscular, this western man wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with small hat. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. He has had some formal singing training, and achieved minor success. 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. Tharivol fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and elven compassion

Ideals: Athletic, Philantrophist, Professionalism, Fighting, Artistic. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 1000 pp. A necklace of small pink pearls (2000 gp). Jeweled anklet (2000 gp). A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (50 gp). Solid gold idol (900 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (130 gp). A detailed rose, with petals and thorns, constructed of silver and electrum (50 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1700 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (2000 gp). Solid gold idol (900 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (130 gp). An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (50 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (2000 gp).

Description: This younger middle-aged man very much looks the part of a Sage, and a wedding ring on his right hand. He wears a feathered hat to hide his balding. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: Calm and collected, he is a well trained Sage. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: When he was but 6 years old his parents immigrated from the east. He was an apprentice working in his father's forge. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Sage for the past few years.

Motivation: To be a Farmer again; and expand his business

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Job, In love, Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 2000 gp. Red-brown spinel (150 gp). Azurite (14 gp). Jade (150 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (700 gp). Violet garnet (1600 gp). Blue quartz (14 gp). Deep blue spinel (1600 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1600 gp). Obsidian (14 gp). Obsidian (14 gp). Deep blue spinel (1600 gp). Obsidian (14 gp). Hematite (14 gp). Iolite (20 gp).

Description: He is a mite stocky and wears a black shirt with thin grey vertical stripes and tan pants. His silver hair is still thick. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are brown.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. Flattery will make him almost putty in your hands.

History: His arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. He has dedicated himself to building a better village for his children.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 8000 sp. Rock crystal (60 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This northern man is dressed in earthy colors with a grey and white handkerchief worn on his right side. His clothes are grease stained in places. His blonde hair is unkempt and raggedy. He has amber eyes and a grey hat with a white feather.

Personality: He is a very happy person and has lots of energy. To put it simply, he's a very lovable idiot. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: He was born in the north. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions.

Ideals: Optimist, Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Religious. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 1000 sp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man stands a little under 5'5" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He dresses in brown turtlenecks beneath a black coat with white slacks. His white hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His eyes are amber and beady.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, he has a hard time making friends. He always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Shepherd business.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. At a young age both his parents were killed in an accident. His uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took him in and had him trained in basic self defense. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Mundane. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 110000 cp. Freshwater pearl (10 gp). Rock crystal (80 gp). Rhodochrosite (10 gp). Obsidian (10 gp). Chalcedony (80 gp).