Description: This younger middle-aged man wears a black shirt with thin brown vertical stripes and grey pants, and a wedding ring on his left hand. His white hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: Rael hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his writing career. 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 served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love.

Ideals: Artistic, Entrepeneur. Bonds: In love, Attractive, Military. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 200 pp. Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (50 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (1000 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (50 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he wears dark leathers with embroidery. His black hair is greasy and uncared for. His violet eyes peer out from beneath his deerstalker blue hat.

Personality: He hates brigands. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: He got into the Farmer business at a young age. 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 then took over the family business and is one of the better Farmer for hire.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by brigands, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Ugly, PTSD. Bonds: Enemies, Job. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 300 pp. Black pearl (1600 gp). Red spinel (100 gp). Alexandrite (1600 gp). Aquamarine (1600 gp). Red spinel (100 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (900 gp). Banded agate (15 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This fat northern man has a bulbous nose and is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. His skin is also unnaturally pale. He has done his best to style his golden hair to look like a famous performer. His violet eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. He is fiercely devoted to his mother, and views his mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-sister.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. His mother disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his mother, he was betrayed dozens of times. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Addict, Shy. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 4000 gp. A silver and pearl hairclip (10 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (1000 gp). Solid gold idol (400 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (900 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (4000 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (100 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1200 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.