Description: This late middle aged man wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment and is in decent physical shape. With bright chestnut hair and a scraggly beard. He has several tiny sapphire earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: Paelias was born with his mother's beautiful face. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He feels threatened by others.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Guardian, Attractive. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 1000 gp.

Description: He dresses like a well dressed Assassin does. With a patchy white beard and wild white hair. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help his friends. He considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. Theren enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. He was an apprentice working in his father's forge. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Assassin.

Motivation: Expand his business.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Insane, Hedonist. Bonds: Job, Military. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 300 pp. White pearl (80 gp). Black pearl (600 gp). Black star sapphire (1100 gp). Chrysoberyl (80 gp). Red garnet (80 gp). Alexandrite (600 gp). White pearl (80 gp). White opal (1100 gp). Brown diamond (4000 gp). Pink pearl (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of his veins is visible when he is not flexing. His shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for him due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. His blonde hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His gray eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: His voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl he speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of his tone. He is always in debt, since he spends his money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. Recently a tribe of goblins attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Heian fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He feels threatened by others; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Cynical, Impulsive. Occupation: Bather

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 2000 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.