Description: This man wears a grey feathered hat and grey clothes. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized topaz on his left hand. His hair is auburn and very short. His blue eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. Peren enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: He got into the Blacksmith business at a young age. He was one of the best in his class, and was picked up by his current employer. He quickly showed his capability and was soon promoted to a head role. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and to reunite with his old friends

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Rich, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 1000 gp. A detailed rose, with petals and thorns, constructed of silver and electrum (90 gp). Solid gold idol (600 gp).

Description: He tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. He wears his black hair down. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: Here is a man who knows he is the smartest in the room. He talks down to others constantly. He is fiercely devoted to his mother, and views his mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-sister.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Carrie was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. Being born in the west, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the west for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way east. After a long history of fighting, Carrie and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Meet up once more with his childhood friend; and regain custody of his daughter

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, Mentor, Adventurer. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: Gold music box (3000 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (600 gp). Gold music box (3000 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (110 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (400 gp). Jeweled anklet (3000 gp). A miniature (3 inch) silver gauntlet, trimmed in mother-of-pearl (40 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: His right side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He wears an entirely tan suit with brown socks and a vest with buckled shoes. He has shaved his head bald. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He has schizophrenia that causes him to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. 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 is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. 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: Money/treasure; and his religion dominates his actions

Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac, Disease. Bonds: Rich, Religious. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 400 pp. Aquamarine (1100 gp). Obsidian (15 gp). Carnelian (80 gp). Alexandrite (1100 gp). Rhodochrosite (15 gp). Red garnet (50 gp). Moss agate (15 gp). Red garnet (50 gp). Jasper (80 gp). Jasper (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.