Description: A pudgy man standing about 5'0" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest. His chestnut hair is long and unkept. This brown eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: This man loves poetry and to teach people poetry more than just about anything. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: He was born in the east. He always admired necromantic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. Lacking all sense, he decided to go on an adventure. He picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: He made a deal with a demon which lead to his current lot in life, and he's becoming increasingly nervous about it; and he has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Adventurer, Debt. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 400 pp. Citrine (40 gp). Blue sapphire (1300 gp). Star rose quartz (40 gp). Star rose quartz (40 gp). Sard (40 gp). Black opal (1300 gp). Bloodstone (40 gp). Azurite (11 gp). Aquamarine (1600 gp). Red spinel (40 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: His right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He wears a brown tunic with grey highlights, and long white pants that bunch up around his shoes. He has moderate length white hair. He has gleaming, smiling hazel eyes.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: Raer was born in the south. At a young age he loved to build and create. He has had some formal writing training, and achieved minor success. He hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and marry his sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Persistence, Artistic. Flaws: Insane, Insomniac. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 100 pp. Black opal (700 gp). Moss agate (5 gp). Jet (70 gp). Obsidian (5 gp). Red-brown spinel (70 gp).

Description: This slender man stands about 4'10". He wears a worn and beaten armor. He has a black handlebar mustache and slicked back black hair. He has several tiny aquamarine earrings on each ear.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Sage born in the past three hundred years. Laucian is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his sisters into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when giants swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. Like his father and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Sage. 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: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by giants, and he desires to right it; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Bonds: Rich, Job, Family, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Sage

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 200 pp. A pair of blacksmith’s puzzle; each has a pair of interlocked iron designs that users try to take apart and put back together (20 gp). Old masterpiece painting (600 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (5000 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (1300 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (500 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.