Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He wears a tan cloak and cross-gartered black stockings. He has a black handlebar mustache and slicked back black hair. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: He was born into a rich family. In his 15th year, his parents were killed by a gnolls raid, leaving Aelar alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He leaves a trail of broken hearts and full pockets wherever he goes.

Motivation: A deep hatred of gnolls; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 2000 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). Jeweled anklet (2000 gp). Gold music box (2000 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1300 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (140 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (140 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (6000 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He dresses like a well dressed Assassin does. He has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. He has no hair. He has a dull look in his brown eyes.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. He enjoys reading and quiet.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Assassin. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Religious. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 3000 gp. Hematite (16 gp). Sard (60 gp). Star rose quartz (60 gp). Golden yellow topaz (800 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking northern young adult. He wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His auburn hair has been sun bleached extensively. His gray eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of philosophers.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and money/treasure

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Slave, Rich. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 200 pp. Large well-done wool tapestry (500 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (1000 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (300 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (2000 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.