Description: A moderately attractive man, he prefers to wear black clothing when he does not wear armor. He has a long white beard with little hanging trinkets. He has several tiny topaz earrings on each ear.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: He was born into a rich family. In his 17th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his father impaled in their home, and his mother beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He guards a vault combo very seriously as well as the key needed to open it.

Motivation: To be a Shoemaker again; and wants to open a new tavern

Flaws: Impulsive, Fearful, Secretive. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Job. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 3000 gp. Chalcedony (20 gp). Red-brown spinel (140 gp). Zircon (20 gp). Fire opal (800 gp). White opal (800 gp). Silver pearl (140 gp). Coral (140 gp). Aquamarine (1300 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking northern young adult. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His hair is auburn and very short. His eyes are brown.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He feeds upon the attention of others.

History: Born to a Sculptor, his mother struggled to pay the bills. He worked as a nervous Performer and found it very stressful. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Performer for the past few years.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Performer responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Bonds: Slave, Job, Attractive, Poor. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 3000 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (500 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (700 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (2000 gp). Old masterpiece painting (900 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears a green cloak and cross-gartered black stockings. He wears his black hair down. His amber eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: Varis 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... When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing writing.

History: Varis was born with his mother's beautiful face. His parents enrolled him in a Wizard school at a young age so that he could practice his divine talents. He left for the north, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: A deep hatred of gnolls; and he will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact

Ideals: Disciplined, Artistic, Gifted. Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 2000 gp. Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (70 gp). 1 Minor magic item.