Description: 5'1" and muscular, this southern man wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His golden hair is lengthy. He has gray eyes.

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 does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Engraver but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: Rael was born in the south. At a young age he loved to build and create. His mother was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Athletic, Persistence, Pacifist, Logical. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 3000 gp. Black pearl (1300 gp). Chrysoprase (60 gp). Alexandrite (1300 gp). Smoky quartz (60 gp). Citrine (60 gp). Eye agate (9 gp). Lapis lazuli (9 gp).

Description: He wears a tight fitting black shirt and pants, and carries scythes. He wears his white hair up in a very large beehive style do. His half smiles and green eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Addict, Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Slave. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: Old masterpiece painting (400 gp). Jeweled anklet (1000 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (2000 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (400 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His black hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His blue eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. He does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of drow may trigger it at times.

History: He was born in the west, but his parents moved at a very young age to the south. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. 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: Someone believes him a fraud; and revenge

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Enemies, Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: Alexandrite (1600 gp). Malachite (4 gp). Aquamarine (1600 gp). Alexandrite (1600 gp). Peridot (60 gp). Deep green spinel (140 gp). Aquamarine (1600 gp). Rich purple corundum (1600 gp). Eye agate (4 gp). Chrysoberyl (140 gp).