Description: He wears a black tunic with grey highlights, and long yellow pants that bunch up around his shoes. He has dyed his greying silver hair a little too much giving a sharp silver color. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: Heian lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. After coming to the age of reason, Heian took it upon himself to study the arcane arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his sons to still be retired.

Motivation: Marry his brother to traveling adventurers; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Sensitive, Fearful. Bonds: Family, Job. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 35000 sp. Old masterpiece painting (1500 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (130 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (130 gp). An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (10 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (5000 gp). A finely crafted rug of intricate, geometric designs worked with silver threading (10 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1500 gp).

Description: He wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. He is physically well-built. He is bald on top and has large chestnut tufts of hair around his ears. He has gleaming, smiling hazel eyes.

Personality: He hates gnolls. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. Through the years after Efferil was born, his father became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the north. Efferil's father didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by gnolls, and he desires to right it

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Enemies, Adventurer, Immigrant. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 300 pp. Golden yellow topaz (1200 gp). Jet (60 gp). Chalcedony (70 gp). Sardonyx (70 gp). Aquamarine (1200 gp). Sardonyx (70 gp). Rose (70 gp). Pink pearl (60 gp).

Description: He wears a brown shirt with thin violet vertical stripes and green pants. He is portly but not overly obese. His white hair and beard is wavy and long. His green unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Eiravel wants to be seen as a stoic, levelheaded, noble Wizard, so he tries to act the part. He does a good job, for the most part... Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Animal Trainer hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and meet up once more with his childhood friend

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted, Logical. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 1000 gp. Alexandrite (1100 gp). Jade (70 gp). Rich purple corundum (1500 gp). Black pearl (1100 gp). Black star sapphire (1500 gp). Freshwater pearl (9 gp).