Description: This man is very fat, and wears an entirely black suit with white socks and a vest with buckled shoes. He has moderate length silver hair. His amber eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. 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 southern family. 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: He is greedy; and he is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Secretive, Insane. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 1000 gp. Iolite (20 gp). Bloodstone (20 gp).

Description: This western man is dressed in an above average manner. His clothes are grease stained in places. His golden hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. His eyes are blue and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is a sleazy, sleazy guy. He has no qualms about using his powers of suggestion to get people to do what he wants. He is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: When he was but 7 years old his parents immigrated from the west. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He left for the west, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and wants to raise his children well

Ideals: Gifted, Logical. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 300 pp.

Description: He is a paragon of his species. He is larger and stronger than most Elves. His skin is light but he possesses many green ritualistic tattoos. He wears a black shirt with thin green vertical stripes and black pants. His black hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends he is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy himself. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: Theren was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his father was employed at, doing general labor. When the war came and ruined his parents he was left adrift. He was a hard man then and has only learned to fight more as time goes on. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He's attracted to the PC; and retire the richest man in the north

Ideals: Joker, Entrepeneur. Flaws: PTSD. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 5000 gp. Deep green spinel (140 gp). Moss agate (4 gp). Black pearl (200 gp). Banded agate (4 gp). Emerald (600 gp). Malachite (4 gp). Aquamarine (200 gp). Alexandrite (200 gp). Moss agate (4 gp). Red spinel (140 gp). Clear bright green emerald (5000 gp). Moss agate (4 gp). Chrysoprase (70 gp).