Description: This exceptionally lanky man typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep pastel leather and dull violet iron scale mail. He sports a long blonde beard, and similarly colored long hair. His eyes are amber and catlike.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: The child of southern immigrants he idolized his father. 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. Recently a tribe of orcs attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Berrian fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Marry his brother to traveling adventurers; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Sensitive. Bonds: Criminal record, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 280 pp. Fire opal (1200 gp). Banded agate (8 gp). Jade (100 gp). Star rose quartz (70 gp). Freshwater pearl (8 gp). Black pearl (1400 gp).

Description: He is lean but muscular and dresses in blue turtlenecks beneath a white coat with black slacks. His black hair is knotted and matted. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He is curt in most of his responses. He prefers to keep his word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. He was taken from his home at a very young age. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job.

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Slave. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 1900 gp. Tourmaline (40 gp). Chrysoprase (30 gp). Malachite (13 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears dark leathers with embroidery, and he perpetually has his glaive ready. He wears his brown hair up in a very large beehive style do. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He has a good heart but also a terrible temper. He will forgive often but not before yelling and berating someone for whatever they have done wrong. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Erevan is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Erevan was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Fighting, Justice. Flaws: Insane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 2000 gp. Tiger eye turquoise (15 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a paragon of his species. He is larger and stronger than most Elves. His skin is dark but he possesses many white ritualistic tattoos. He wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. His chestnut hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the east. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: He comes from a rich eastern family. He inherited a moderately successful company from his father. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. He has been saving his money to try and buy his brother's freedom.

Motivation: Many gnolls want him driven away; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Pacifist, Optimist. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Rich, Family, Enemies. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 800 gp.

Description: A pudgy man standing about 5'4" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. He has styled his black hair well, parting it to the right. His violet eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and meet up once more with his childhood friend

Ideals: Disciplined. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp). A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (70 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (70 gp).