Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking southern young adult. He wears grey trousers with tan and black striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. He has styled his brown hair well, parting it to the right. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: Aelar is a sociable creature first and foremost. He loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. He can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. He takes great pride in his work and is very well organized. His planner is full of calendar events.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. 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 Scribe. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Scribe responsibilities is difficult; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Extrovert. Bonds: Slave, Attractive, Job, Poor. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 1000 gp. Solid gold idol (300 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (80 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (3000 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (40 gp). A delicate brass dragon egg (80 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (1000 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (700 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He is dressed in a clean green cloak covering his clean studded leather. He keeps his golden hair in a flapper bob. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He hates drow. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. 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: He wants revenge against drow; and he is greedy

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Enemies, Rich. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 200 pp.

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he wears a blue shirt, with a grey mid length shorts with grey tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. His hair is always cut to a buzz. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He speaks before he thinks and is too direct. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: When he was but 6 years old his parents immigrated from the west. He has had some formal poetry training, and achieved minor success. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 300 pp. Rhodochrosite (5 gp). Star rose quartz (60 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1400 gp). Aquamarine (1400 gp). Aquamarine (1400 gp).