Description: He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. He has relatively light skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. He wears his white hair up in a very large beehive style do. His eyes are gray and beady.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. He seeks to pay back kindness whenever he gets the chance. Whether it be in the form of unwanted serenades or the latest gossip he always seeks to do solids for his friends.

History: Born in the south to a Apothecary, Arannis learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. He worked as a nervous Apothecary and found it very stressful. He became a Apothecary soon after.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Apothecary responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Passionate, Philantrophist, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 400 pp. Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp).

Description: He is a mite stocky and wears tattered old clothes. His black hair is knotted and matted. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He works hard and plays hard.

History: His martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. Ostracized due to the martial powers of his oldest sister, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Elves became a terror of the countryside. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1000 gp). A delicate silver chain set with a tourmaline (70 gp). Carved bone or ivory statuette (70 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (130 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he has a large black mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into his blue robe. His brown hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. 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, Vanuath is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east; and he is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions

Ideals: Justice, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Sensitive. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 100 pp. Golden yellow topaz (600 gp). Azurite (9 gp). Black pearl (600 gp). Black opal (800 gp).