Description: 4'8" and muscular, this western man is wearing a tight black one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. He has wavy red hair. He has several tiny topaz earrings on each ear.

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 does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for him. He lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. 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: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Athletic, Joker, Logical. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 100 pp. Obsidian (8 gp). Black pearl (1500 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A 4'9" southern man, he dresses like a well dressed Spice Merchant does. His red hair is smooth and relatively long. His gray eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered dancing. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature bow.

Motivation: He is greedy; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 900 pp. Silver comb with moonstones (900 gp). An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (40 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (80 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (500 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (80 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (2900 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a physically imposing light-skinned man. He wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with Stetson hat. He keeps his long chestnut hair kept up in a rat tail. His blue eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He is curt in most of his responses. He prefers to keep his word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. He is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with his old comrades. He has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: When he was but 8 years old his parents immigrated from the south. Lamlis abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. In the meantime he has taken over work as a Barrister and occasionally as a mercenary.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break; and money/treasure

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Adventurer, Immigrant, Job, Rich. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 4000 gp. Black pearl (1400 gp). Sardonyx (50 gp). Violet garnet (1400 gp). Rhodochrosite (13 gp). Bloodstone (50 gp). Obsidian (13 gp). Smoky quartz (50 gp). Alexandrite (1400 gp). Red garnet (120 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.