Description: This late middle aged man wears professional attire and is in decent physical shape. His red hair is knotted and matted. His eyes are gray and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. He has a cruel streak; something he gained from his previous mentor. He harbors resentment against his former mentor.

History: He comes from a rich western family. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother 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 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 uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs.

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor, Rich. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 2000 gp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (700 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (60 gp). A miniature (3 inch) silver gauntlet, trimmed in mother-of-pearl (30 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (3000 gp). Gold music box (2000 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (700 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (700 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: His skin is bronze and flawless. He is wearing a long, tan cloak. He is an epitome of beauty. His hair is red and very short. His brown eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He considers himself a man of culture and sophistication. He likes a good challenge to his wits. He is obsessed with his god.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Painter arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Through the years after Soveliss was born, his father became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the north. Soveliss's father didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and to pay off his debts

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Rich, Debt. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 300 pp. Sardonyx (70 gp). Deep blue spinel (400 gp). Golden yellow topaz (400 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a pot bellied northern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears a blue tunic with pastel highlights, and long tan pants that bunch up around his shoes. He has styled his white hair well, parting it to the left. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. He is always in debt, since he spends his money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: Efferil lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. In his youth he was a Bounty Hunter, and wanted to be a champion fighter when he grew up. He was working during a period of war, and as one of the natives he lived in fear of joining the others in being slaughtered. He saw the brutality and swore off his fighting aspirations, taking his younger sister on his back after seeing his parents die, and fled the country. He has been saving his money to try and buy his sister's freedom.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent mother; and wants to raise his children well

Ideals: Athletic, Fighting. Flaws: Impulsive, PTSD. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 3000 gp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (300 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (300 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp). A delicate brass dragon egg (50 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (4000 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (2400 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (2400 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.