Description: This tall, slender man prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. He carries his fan with him everywhere and carries himself as the perfect gentleman. He has a brown handlebar mustache and slicked back brown hair. His violet eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing dancing.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. While he appears to be a normal Elf, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. 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 money/treasure

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic, Insane. Bonds: Rich, Military. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 600 pp. White pearl (150 gp). Fire opal (1500 gp). Eye agate (14 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man of a pale complexion, he wears baggy grey pantaloons and a pastel scarf. His black hair is smooth and relatively long. His gray eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He is a very happy person and has lots of energy. To put it simply, he's a very lovable idiot. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: Paelias lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. 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 west. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature greatsword.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and regain custody of his son

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Family, Adventurer, Military. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 200 gp. Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1000 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1700 gp). A pair of blacksmith’s puzzle; each has a pair of interlocked iron designs that users try to take apart and put back together (10 gp). Jeweled gold crown (2000 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This western man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He dresses in grey turtlenecks beneath a violet coat with red slacks. He sports a flattop hair cut. This brown eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: Calm and collected, he is a well trained Performer. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: He was born in the west, but his parents moved at a very young age to the east. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Uthemar 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 Uthemar. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 190 pp. Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1600 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is lean but muscular and wears well tailored suits and hats with beautiful decoration. He is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. His black hair is greasy and uncared for. His amber unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Uthemar embodies much of what other species detest in the Elves. He always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Bookbinder business.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. A freak accident while working with his Butcher mother left him crippled. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and he is greedy

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 800 gp.

Description: He prefers to wear pastel clothing when he does not wear armor. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly crossbows and glaives. His black hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He seems absolutely devoid of it. He stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. He is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: He was raised by priests from a young age. 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. Being a Mercenary kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable; and he will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Criminal record, Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 290 pp. Bloodstone (40 gp). Zircon (40 gp). Iolite (40 gp). Lapis lazuli (10 gp). Rose (40 gp). Malachite (10 gp). Deep green spinel (160 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.