Description: He stands about 4'11" and wears light armors faded through time and improper care. His right hand appears badly burned and disfigured. His hair is long and auburn with streaks of red, and is pulled back with small black clips. His beard is red, braided, and well cared for. His eyes are likewise blue. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. 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-brother.

History: Born in the south to a Farmer, Aelar learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. He sought a place where he would be rewarded solely on the merits of his skills. This search led him directly into Farmer work with an outfit from a few towns over. Farmer work suited him well, and with each successful project, he earned more gold and more respect from his peers. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and sabotage a competitor

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 1000 gp. Jet (40 gp). Freshwater pearl (4 gp). Sard (30 gp). Jade (40 gp). Coral (40 gp). Emerald (400 gp). Jade (40 gp). Jet (40 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a husky man, who tends to wear a large green jacket. His head has been shaved. His fierce hazel eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. He will often invite strangers home for dinner and talk their ears off. He cares deeply for his spouse and does his best to make sure his guests look presentable.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Cartwright arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He always admired divine-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. 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: He loathes his own lifestyle; and he is greedy

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: In love, Rich. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 500 pp. Gold music box (1000 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He wears tattered old clothes. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his longsword, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a butterfly on it. His hair is brown and curly. His blue eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He has a habit of throwing himself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: His necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. 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. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and marry his brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Impulsive. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 3000 gp. Coral (140 gp). Star rose quartz (80 gp). Alexandrite (800 gp). Jet (140 gp). Red garnet (140 gp). Silver pearl (140 gp). Azurite (6 gp). Deep blue spinel (800 gp). Red spinel (140 gp). Bloodstone (80 gp). Golden yellow topaz (800 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (1100 gp). 1 Medium magic item.