Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright blue and grey, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. His head has been shaved. He has several tiny amethyst earrings on each ear.

Personality: He runs his personal life as if detached from it. He organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits he will get from it. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Selfish, Forgetful. Bonds: Rich, Mentor. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 3000 gp. Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (500 gp).

Description: His right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He wears a brown tunic with grey highlights, and long white pants that bunch up around his shoes. He has moderate length white hair. He has gleaming, smiling hazel eyes.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: Raer was born in the south. At a young age he loved to build and create. He has had some formal writing training, and achieved minor success. He hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and marry his sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Persistence, Artistic. Flaws: Insane, Insomniac. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 100 pp. Black opal (700 gp). Moss agate (5 gp). Jet (70 gp). Obsidian (5 gp). Red-brown spinel (70 gp).

Description: This slender man stands about 4'10". He wears a worn and beaten armor. He has a black handlebar mustache and slicked back black hair. He has several tiny aquamarine earrings on each ear.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Sage born in the past three hundred years. Laucian is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his sisters into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when giants swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. Like his father and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Sage. 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: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by giants, and he desires to right it; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Bonds: Rich, Job, Family, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Sage

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 200 pp. A pair of blacksmith’s puzzle; each has a pair of interlocked iron designs that users try to take apart and put back together (20 gp). Old masterpiece painting (600 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (5000 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (1300 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (500 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.