Description: He is lean but muscular and dresses like a well dressed Mason does. He sports a flattop hair cut. His eyes are green and catlike.

Personality: Theren is a sociable creature first and foremost. He loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. He can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. He has all his life been fascinated with writing.

History: He was raised by priests from a young age. A gifted student he started as a Sculptor, but he got bored and became a Mason. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Mason for the past few years.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Mason responsibilities is difficult; and expand his business

Ideals: Extrovert, Artistic. Bonds: Job, Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 400 pp. White opal (600 gp). Bloodstone (70 gp). Aquamarine (700 gp). Golden yellow topaz (700 gp). Deep blue spinel (700 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is well dressed, constantly wearing a blue suit, red shirt, and blue tie. He is physically well-built. With a patchy auburn beard and wild auburn hair. His half smiles and hazel eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: A powerful necromancer made him what he is. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. In his journeys he found a malevolent artifact. He wishes to return this artifact and its corrupting influence back to where it came.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west; and to reunite with his old friends

Ideals: Disciplined, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 4000 gp. Gold cup set with emeralds (11000 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (500 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1300 gp). A miniature (3 inch) silver gauntlet, trimmed in mother-of-pearl (50 gp). A silver and pearl hairclip (50 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: 4'7" and muscular, this eastern man wears skinny pants and wears a blue and yellow robe with the hood down. His head has been shaved. He has gleaming, smiling green eyes.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes giants are coming to abduct people. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his poetry with anyone who is interested.

History: Erdan hails from a village terrorized by giants. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered poetry. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Blacksmith they were divorced and he won custody of their son. He worked as a Servant, and he later adopted a second son.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by giants, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Family. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 2000 gp. A detailed rose, with petals and thorns, constructed of silver and electrum (40 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (6000 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (1100 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.