Description: With black face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he prefers to wear white clothing when he does not wear armor. His brown hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He invented a lineage for himself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. He worked as a nervous Knight and found it very stressful. In his journeys he found a malevolent artifact. He wishes to return this artifact and its corrupting influence back to where it came.

Motivation: Expand his business; and marry his brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Adventurer, Job, Family. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 300 pp. Freshwater pearl (15 gp). Eye agate (15 gp). Chrysoberyl (120 gp). Sard (80 gp). Red-brown spinel (120 gp). Smoky quartz (80 gp). Jasper (80 gp). Freshwater pearl (15 gp). Chalcedony (80 gp). Freshwater pearl (15 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (1200 gp). Peridot (80 gp). Black pearl (900 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized green coat. He has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. His chestnut hair is smooth and relatively long. His eyes are hazel and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is envious of other's things. He hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that he so desires. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage son.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. 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 south. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Tailor they were divorced and he won custody of their son. He worked as a Armorer, and he later adopted a second son.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent father; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Greedy, Insane. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 200 pp. Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (1100 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a pot bellied northern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears long strands of topaz and short blue dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. His hair is red, silky, and of moderate length. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Aelar is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: He was born into a rich family. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He leaves a trail of broken hearts and full pockets wherever he goes.

Motivation: He is greedy.

Ideals: Athletic, Justice. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Guardian. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 17000 sp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.