Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. He wears a small hat to hide his balding. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are green.

Personality: He is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as he rather likes the sound of his voice. His demeanor is somewhat feminine. Thervan 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: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. A freak accident while working with his Bricklayer mother left him crippled. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Spice Merchant.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent mother; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Family, Job. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 3000 gp. Hematite (15 gp). Deep green spinel (120 gp). Chalcedony (70 gp). Coral (120 gp). Alexandrite (600 gp). Blue quartz (15 gp). Alexandrite (600 gp). Moonstone (70 gp). Brown-green garnet (120 gp). Golden pearl (120 gp). Silver pearl (120 gp). Moss agate (15 gp).

Description: He wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. His hair is brown and very short. His eyes are likewise brown. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He speaks before he thinks and is too direct. 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: The child of southern immigrants he idolized his mother. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Sculptor they were divorced and he won custody of their daughter. He worked as a Doctor, and he later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister; and doesn't want to be a doctor and was forced into it by his family

Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Family, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 200 pp. Zircon (80 gp). Blue star sapphire (1200 gp). Deep blue spinel (1000 gp).

Description: He wears a yellow coat over a black low-cut shirt, and a wide-brimmed hat upon his head. He has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. His black hair is lengthy. He has amber eyes.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He is underhanded and not above using his wealth and body to get others to do his bidding.

History: Aerdeth was born in the south. At a young age he loved to build and create. He always admired necromantic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He left for the south, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: To pay off his debts; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Persistence, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Debt. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 23000 sp. An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (80 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (160 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (700 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp).