Description: He stands about 4'7" and wears a yellow tunic with grey highlights, and long brown pants that bunch up around his shoes. His right hand appears badly burned and disfigured. He is bald on top and has large black tufts of hair around his ears. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: Here is a man who knows he is the smartest in the room. He talks down to others constantly. He plays an instrument quite well.

History: Efferil was born the youngest of three triplets. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered poetry. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and nothing but the best is good enough for him

Ideals: Impeccable, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 100 pp. Jet (140 gp). Bloodstone (50 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: His right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt. His white hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a broad hat. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He hates Elves with a passion. As such he is filled with self loathing. He is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: His arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. In his 10th year, his parents were killed by a orcs raid, leaving Vanuath alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He left for the north, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 400 pp. Chalcedony (30 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, he wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His eyes are amber.

Personality: He speaks before he thinks and is too direct. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Halimath is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world; and retire the richest man in the north

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 3000 gp. A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (180 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (5000 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (800 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (5000 gp). Jeweled anklet (3000 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (5000 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (5000 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1100 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.