Description: He wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with deerstalker hat. He carries with him a set of ceremonial daggers on his belt, each one with a topaz on the hilt. His hair is short and silver. He has several tiny topaz earrings on each ear.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. He loves teas. He is very sensitive about his face. To blow off anger he lifts weights and to control his otherwise explosive temper he works out a lot.

History: He was born in a small mountains village. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. 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's repulsed by the PC; and he is greedy

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Nature. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 200 pp. A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (40 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (600 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (500 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (50 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a physically imposing dark-skinned man. He wears long strands of topaz and short white dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. His chestnut hair is still thick. His amber eyes peer out from beneath his feathered white hat.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He is a thrill seeker, he laughs at people and throws down challenges. He is highly competitive and combative.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Dreali grew up listening to his father's many stories. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Priest. Now he works as a poetry tutor during his time off.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and balancing his hectic life and new priest responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Logical, Artistic. Bonds: Rich, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 100 pp. Chalcedony (40 gp). Jade (70 gp). Lapis lazuli (13 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This malnourished man wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt. He is bald on top and has large brown tufts of hair around his ears. This gray eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: A deeply religious man he believes everything happens for a reason. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Crown-heir hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and his religion dominates his actions

Ideals: Gifted, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Poor, Religious. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 4000 gp. Pink diamond (6000 gp). Freshwater pearl (5 gp). Moss agate (5 gp). Obsidian (5 gp). Obsidian (5 gp).