Description: Runty and weak-looking, he tends to wear a large pastel jacket. He has done his best to style his auburn hair to look like a famous performer. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: This man loves painting and to teach people painting more than just about anything. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: A powerful necromancer made him what he is. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a son. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love.

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Mentor, In love. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 800 pp. An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (120 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1000 gp). A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (10 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A 4'9" eastern man, he wears a black shirt with thin grey vertical stripes and brown pants. He wears a Stetson hat to hide his balding. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: Here is a man who knows he is the smartest in the room. He talks down to others constantly. He is underhanded and not above using his wealth and body to get others to do his bidding.

History: Laucian lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. His first spouse was a Courier, they had one daughter, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. He used his abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Miner responsibilities is difficult; and to reunite with his absent father

Ideals: Impeccable, Philantrophist. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Job. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 19000 sp. Blue quartz (16 gp). Black pearl (1100 gp). Amethyst (160 gp). Black pearl (1100 gp). Pink pearl (160 gp). Alexandrite (1100 gp). Zircon (80 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1100 gp). Hematite (16 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle, and carries shortspears. With bright brown hair and a scraggly beard. His gray eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He is a Guard first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Thervan was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. A gifted student he started as a Tailor, but he got bored and became a Guard. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 5 years.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and expand his business

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Job, Mentor. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 300 pp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (900 gp). A detailed rose, with petals and thorns, constructed of silver and electrum (30 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (80 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.